Amends Quote by John Cage

Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced; it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself.

— Thomas Carlyle

“Relatedness is vital in a time when so many people suffer from social deafness. Emotional insensitivity being caused by a redoubtable “tin ear” makes…

— Erik Pevernagie

It is the disease of not listening...... that I am troubled with.

— William Shakespeare

If he who does not know kept silent, discord would cease.

— Socrates

“We—are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar; Such difference without discord, as can make Those sweetest sounds,…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.

— Gaston Bachelard

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

— Gaston Bachelard

One of the things that I discovered in lecturing was that gradually one ceased to hear what one said one heard what the audience…

— Gertrude Stein

Dissension is healthy, even when it gets loud.

— Jenny Lawson

“Good listeners are no less rare or important than good communicators. Here, too, an unusual degree of confidence is the key -- a capacity…

— Alain de Botton

Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they…

— Plutarch

When someone really hears you without passing judgment on you, without trying to take responsibility for you, without trying to mold you, it feels…

— Carl Rogers