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Quotes, proverbs and saying about listening and learning #1 (permalink) Mon Aug 10, 2009 3:04 am   Quotes, proverbs and saying about listening and learning
 

Hello,

I'm looking for some proverbs or quotes about listening. I want to put it on the pages of English listening contents. One of them I used last time was "You can listen to it as much as you know."

I made one but I'm not sure my boss accepts it. Rolling Eyes Hmm, It was... "Learning comes from Listening." I applied "faith comes from hearing the message" (Romans 10:17) and changed it, but I'm not sure it has a kind of impact.

Quotes or proverbs describing the close relationship between learning and listening... Do you guys know any? If you do, please help me out!

Thanks,
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Quotes, proverbs and saying about listening and learning #2 (permalink) Mon Aug 10, 2009 11:49 am   Quotes, proverbs and saying about listening and learning
 

You can listen to it as much as you know-- I think you should get rid of this one; I don't understand it at all.
Learning comes from listening-- This seems fine to me, but it is hardly derivative of the Biblical quotation.

And they seem to be neither proverbs nor quotations; they are more like simple statements. Here are some quotes:

"It is the privilege of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Teach me half the gladness
That thy brain must know,
Such harmonious madness
From my lips would flow
The world should listen then– as I am listening now." -- Percy Bysshe Shelley

"It is the disease of not listening, the malady of not
marking, that I am troubled withal." -- William Shakespeare
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Quotes, proverbs and saying about listening and learning #3 (permalink) Thu Aug 13, 2009 1:39 am   Quotes, proverbs and saying about listening and learning
 

Hi, MM. Thanks for your attention!

"You can listen to it as much as you know"- it is... like, when you listen to something, the more you have knowledge on it, the more you understand. How about this, the more you know, the more you can listen... is it weird, too?

How about... Listening to English leads you to the bigger world.? If you can listen to English, you can get more knowledge and information about world. Whew. it's difficult to make such statements.

By the way, amonng the quotes you showed I liked this:

"It is the privilege of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Quotes, proverbs and saying about listening and learning #4 (permalink) Fri Aug 14, 2009 2:25 am   Quotes, proverbs and saying about listening and learning
 

hi sweetpumpkin! i think what you cantry to tell is " the more you listen to smth - the more you learn". it's my understanding:)
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Quotes, proverbs and saying about listening and learning #5 (permalink) Fri Aug 14, 2009 2:27 am   Quotes, proverbs and saying about listening and learning
 

a little correction: "what you're trying to say")))
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Quotes, proverbs and saying about listening and learning #6 (permalink) Fri Aug 14, 2009 17:44 pm   Quotes, proverbs and saying about listening and learning
 

Oh, thanks alot, Laflor.
"The more you listen to English, the more you learn the world."
"The more listening to English, the more knowledge of the world."

I try to say that kind of things. Sounds weird, though. Haha!
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