„I speak and speak, … but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. … It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.“

— Marco Polo
„And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking.“
— Virginia Woolf
„He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.“
— Stephen King
„Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.“
— John Muir
„the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
„Also, one of the simplest paths to deep change is for the less powerful to speak as much as they listen, and for the more powerful to listen as much as they speak.“
— Gloria Steinem
„Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart. “
— Matka Tereza