I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.

Man's tongue is soft, and bone doth lack; yet a stroke therewith may break a man's back.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.

Everything you say should be true but not everything true should be said.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds; and I very rarely change it.

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

Never miss a good chance to shut up.

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Most conversations are just alternating monologues. The question is, is there any real listening going on.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.