Pope Francis Quotes

What I've really learned is to be open to listen to other people's opinions and then question my own thoughts. And learn how to talk to people. The biggest gift from having one of these moments is that it gets people talking.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.

I think sometimes younger people - not necessarily thinkers and intellectuals and the like, but people who are on social media and who are not as informed as journalists or professional thinkers - may get a bit, you know, impatient with the necessity of sustained thinking, sustained argumentation, sustained dialogue.

People love to talk but hate to listen.

Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist.

If you can listen well, people will say you're a good conversationalist.

The great challenge facing us today is to learn once again how to talk to one another, not simply how to generate and consume information.

People don't listen, they just wait for their turn to talk.

Talk to people, not above them.

I think listening to people is helpful.

There are always more people who prefer to speak than to listen.

Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.

I've always been more interested in the content of our newspapers, political positions day to day, the thrill of communicating with people through words that I am in the pure business aspects.

Only when people learn to converse will they begin to be equal.

Listen widely to remove your doubts and be careful when speaking about the rest and your mistakes will be few.

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created.

Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener. The latter must prepare to receive it according to the motion it takes.

To be alive is to listen quietly while other people talk. That's how you learn something.

I only wish I could find an institute that teaches people how to listen. Business people need to listen at least as much as they need to talk. Too many people fail to realize that real communication goes in both directions.

I think communication is key, too. You're answering all the questions. Thank you. I'll just sit back here.

Nowadays, the media have to be there to keep you from asking too many questions, from getting together with other people who might want to do the Jeffersonian thing and call out the government.

The art of conversation lies in listening.

It was too important a matter, this talking to people, and listening to them, to do it lightly or often.

If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.