Quotes about Communication
In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
- Samuel Johnson
Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.
- Henry Ward Beecher
He that is ashamed to speak the truth has need to be ashamed of himself.
- Charles Spurgeon
There is only one excuse for a speaker's asking the attention of his audience: he must have either truth or entertainment for them.
- Dale Carnegie
Public faith means going public with what's in your heart, with humility and respect for others, as we speak of the truth of the gospel.
- Timothy Keller
Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth!
- Pope Benedict XVI
The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.
- George Eliot
Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses to tell the truth in French or in German.
- GK Chesterton
Among the Jews, especially in the Old Testament, teachings served not for the communication of religious truth, but rather to bring the one taught into direct confrontation with the Divine Will.
- Gordon Fee
Evangelizing includes the endeavor to elicit a response to the truth taught.
- JI Packer
As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.
- Madeleine L'Engle
No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have failed.
- Madeleine L'Engle