Communication Quotes

Because feelings, emotional and physical, are so foregrounded in sexual encounters, the orgy is soon...

A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an id...

We emphasize straightforwardness. You should be true to your feelings, and to your mind, expressing ...

When we say something, our subjective intention or situation is always involved. So there is no perf...

So without any intentional, fancy way of adjusting yourself, to express yourself freely as you are i...

A mind full of preconceived ideas, subjective intentions, or habits it not open to things as they ar...

True communication depends upon our being straightforward with one another... But the best way to co...

When you listen to someone, you should give up all your preconceived ideas and your subjective opini...

The great obstacle to communication is the tendency to constantly evaluate or moralize with others, ...

Very few people have ever experienced the feeling of being completely understood. When they experien...

To carefully listen is a powerful way of saying to another that we value that person. When we take t...

Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking....

Relief loosens tongues beyond measure.

Coming from a business family, she shied away from abstractions.

Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.

All of a sudden, we've lost a lot of control. We can't turn off our internet; we can't turn off our ...

I have something to tell you.""How, you have something to tell me?""You have understood me exactly."...

Humans are so innately hardwired for language that they can no more suppress their ability to learn ...

When a man says "I know what I mean, but I can't express it," he generally does not know what he mea...

What the dead had no speech for, when living,They can tell you, being dead: the communicationOf the ...

If you look hard and long, you can find us. If you listen hard and long, you can hear any of us, cal...

If this constant sliding and hiding of meaning were true of conscious life, then we would of course ...

All communication involves faith; indeed, some linguisticians hold that the potential obstacles to a...

That was messages without meaning: telepathy without brains.

I guess the truth is nobody told this smart kid that communication between such divergent life forms...

I know I am talking nonsense, but I’d rather go rambling on, and partly expressing something I find ...

When men live huddled together without true communication, there seems to be a greater sharing, and ...

Cooperativeness is not so much learning how to get along with others as taking the kinks out of ours...

He who does not want to understand the Other has no right to say that what the Other does or says ma...

And a new philosophy emerged called quantum physics, which suggest that the individual’s function is...

The level of intelligence has been tremendously increased, because people are thinking and communica...

In the information-communication civilization of the 21st Century, creativity and mental excellence ...

A lively discussion is usually helpful, because the hottest fire makes the hardest steel.

The trouble with you is that the only way you can communicate is through art. You’ve never learned t...

There are no commitments, only bargains. And they have to be made again every day. You think making ...

What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The...

Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instea...

So what do you want? Does what happens inside show on the outside? There is such a great fire in one...

A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed about with chatter, defaced, obscured in her own ...

...for she soars with the wildest hyperbole when not tagging after the most pedestrian dictum.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

We can only guess at the thoughts and emotions of our neighbors. Each one of us is a prisoner in a s...

Lonnie's monotonous speech gives him an advantage, the same advantage foreigners have: his words are...

It is always hazardous to express what one has to say indirectly and allusively.

I do think that art that doesn't communicate is useless.

Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.

Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publications, the f...

If a philosophical writer cannot be followed, the difficulty of his subject can be placed only in mi...

This time, Fusako was able to express herself with fluency and candor. The bold letters she had been...

We are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, toleranc...

The acknowledgement of a single possibility can change everything.

It can be difficult to speak truth to power. Circumstances, however, have made doing so increasingly...

Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of th...

A fundamental truth, is that there is simply no such thing as an inherently boring person or thing. ...

We float in language like icebergs – four-fifths under the surface and only one-fifth of us projecti...

To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funnelled through the reducing valve o...

The fact is that very few of us know what words mean; fewer still take the trouble to enquire. We ca...

Speech was only a bag of tricks that fooled you into believing that you could see through the eyes o...

The Internet," [Judy] Singer said, "is a prosthetic device for people who can't socialize without it...

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say — bec...

I think we can learn a lot about a person in the very moment that language fails them. In the very m...

Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.

Ideas and opinions are not spontaneously "born" in each individual brain: they have had a centre of ...

Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.

Though the man-apes often fought and wrestled one another, their disputes very seldom resulted in se...

Only by the aid of language does reason bring about its most important achievements, namely the harm...

Human communication, 'as the saying goes, is a clash of symbols' it covers a multitude of signs. But...

it’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way tha...

Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rathe...

Choosing to be honest is the first step in the process of love. There is no practitioner of love who...

Getting in touch with the lovelessness within and letting that lovelessness speak its pain is one wa...

How different things might be if, rather than saying "I think I'm in love," we were saying "I've con...

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects ba...

Linguist say parties in the conversation will tolerate silence for four seconds before interjecting ...

Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding.

I'm self-sufficient. I spend a lot of time on my own and I shut off quite easily. When I communicate...

People often silence themselves, or "agree to disagree" without fully exploring the actual nature of...

Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding...

I sometimes think that writing is like driving a sheep down the road. If there's any gate open to th...

Men do not long continue to think what they have forgotten how to say.

You don't have to explain something you haven't said.

I have come to recognize that being trustworthy does not demand that I be rigidly consistent but tha...

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each oth...

Our difficulties in understanding or effectuatingcommunication with other animals may arise from our...

In addition to Ameslan, chimpanzees and other nonhuman primates are being taught a variety of other ...

[Jem] looked from Will to Tessa and raised his silvery eyebrows. "A miracle," he said. "You got him ...

The whole problem of life is this: how to break out of one's own solitude, how to communicate with o...

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secre...

More than the divides of race, class, or gender, more than rural or urban, believer or nonbeliever, ...

And none of this necessarily has any bearing on the issue of the existence or non-existence of a God...

Suddenly I've become so restless that I'm capable of saying "That is enough" and ending what I'm wri...

Words are the voice of the heart.

Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.

Ask yourself the three things you must always ask yourself before you say anything. 1) Does this nee...

The simplest definition of prayer is communicating with God. That's it. Did you miss it? Let me say ...

Just as he was slowly bringing order to his own internal life, he would also bring order to his lang...

In the early days, I might have gotten on stage and begun to sing as a desperate attempt to communic...

When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating...

Sometimes language can't even read the music of meaning.

To get through life successfully, body and soul must translate each other correctly more often than ...