Quotes about Communication
Just as it is better to illuminate than merely to shine, so to pass on what one has contemplated is better than merely to contemplate.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.
— Samuel Beckett
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
— Samuel Beckett
Words are but the signs of ideas.
— Samuel Johnson
Classical quotation is a parole of literary men all over the world.
— Samuel Johnson
That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments
— Samuel Johnson
What is written without effort in general is read without pleasure.
— Samuel Johnson
I am not yet so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.
— Samuel Johnson
In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
— Samuel Johnson
You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.
— Samuel Johnson
To let friendship die away by negligence and silence, is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of this weary pilgrimage.
— Samuel Johnson
A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.
— Samuel Johnson