Communication Quotes

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 ...

There’s a larger point to be made here than my own obtuseness, which is the fragility, beauty, and a...

I saw a stop sign, and it occurred to me that just as no one expects a stop sign to stop a car, I sh...

Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject th...

The world is full of talkers, but it is rare to find anyone who listens. And I assure you that you c...

They had nothing in common but the English language, and tried by its help to express what neither o...

The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the p...

True communication is communion- the realization of oneness, which is love.

Teach me to speak the language of men.

Very few great artists feel the giant agony of the world.

Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bomb...

The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distr...

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human...

Illusion of transparency: We always know what we mean by our words, and so we expect others to know ...

What’s not so great is that all this technology is destroying our social skills. Not only have we gi...

How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. P...

He sat down in his chair by the fire and began to chat, as was his habit before he and his wife part...

What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think i...

I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, t...

Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When ...

Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors.

We no longer have a sufficiently high estimate of ourselves when we communicate. Our true experience...

People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

I told you from the beginning—as soon as I could—I told you I was afraid of myself." There was a pit...

a story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer you get to the scene of events the ...

The first rule of style is to have something to say. The second rule of style is to control yourself...

Though the immediate impression of rebellion may obscure the fact, the task of authentic literature ...

My conduct with my friends is motivated: each being is, I believe, incapable on his own, of going to...

To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in wor...

Human communication, it sometimes seems to me, involves an exaggerated amount of time. How briefly a...

A magnificent cause can overcome a prickly personality, but your ability to enchant people increases...

It is the encounters with people that make life worth living.

Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything wit...

Madeleine in her turn stared at him steadily, straight into his eyes, in a profound, strange way, as...

Political thought is representative. I form an opinion by considering a given issue from different v...

Walter Pater defined Romanticism as adding strangeness to beauty.

The inventor knows HOW to borrow.

All canonical writing possesses the quality "of making you feel strangeness at home.

He was a man with a chest, and he wanted to give thoughtful expression to the passion of his heart.

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication i...

To wit, existence is communication and communication is existence.

Our hearts are not stones. A stone may disintegrate in time and lose its outward form. But hearts ne...

All you have to do is wait. Sit tight and wait for the right moment. Not try to change anything by f...

Like boarding a train running parallel. That's what disappearing is.

...no matter how advanced the system, no matter how precise, unless we have the will to communicate,...

Ships passing in broad daylight.

Civilization is communication. When that which should be expressed and transmitted is lost, civiliza...

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness ...

Silence is also a form of speaking.

to bar communication between intellectuals, who are always our best hope of peace, is particularly s...

A word to the wise is infuriating.

The only problem with the Angels' new image was that the outlaws themselves didn't understand it. It...

All the time when I speak to you, even now, I'm saying not precisely what I think, but what will imp...

I grow grandiose, which is a good sign I should become prosaic.

The poem or the discovery exists in two moments of vision: the moment of appreciation as much as tha...

I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.

Interpretations of interpretations interpreted.

For though a very few hours spent in the hard labour of incessant talking will dispatch more subject...