“Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem.”

— A.A. Milne , book Winnie-the-Pooh

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British author 1882–1956

Benjamin Hoff book The Tao of Pooh

Source: The Tao of Pooh

“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

“Many people talk as if they have all the answers, whereas I know I don't. That's probably why no one listens to me.”

John S. Hall (1960) Poet, author, singer, lawyer

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Quotes from Daily Negations (2007)

“They never listen to people like me or Asifa Khan the way they listen to Teesta Setalvad even though unlike her, we have no personal agenda. The media prefers talking to those who have made commerce out of other people’s problems. I call such people merchants of misery. Our country would be far more peaceful, and inter-community relations would return to being amicable, if their shops would shut down.”

Zafar Sareshwala (1962) Indian businessman

Modi, Muslims and media: Voices from Narendra Modi's Gujarat. 2014

“How many times had he stood calmly back there on the duckboards and listened to respectable-looking people talk about raping the hotel penguins?”

Hunter S. Thompson book The Curse of Lono

The Curse of Lono (1983)
1980s

“For a large number of problems there will be some animal of choice or a few such animals on which it can be most conveniently studied.”

August Krogh (1874–1949) Danish physiologist

A. Krogh (1929). The progress of physiology, American Journal of Physiology 90:243–251.
See Krogh Principle
Famously quoted by an important microbiologist in: Krebs H. A. (1975). The August Krogh Principle: "For many problems there is an animal on which it can be most conveniently studied." Journal of Experimental Zoology 194:221–226.