Quotes about Communication

I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.

In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions.

I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.

Demagoguery is the ability to dress minor ideas with major words.

A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels.

Women are emotional creatures. You have to listen to them to figure out what they are saying. Show your wife steadfast loyalty.

Facts speak plainer than words

I will never be able to do or be everything you want, nor vice versa, but I'd like to think we can be the sort of people who will dare to tell each other who we really are. The alternative is silence and lies, which are the real enemies of love.

It is according to how we are able to answer the question of what we do (normally the first enquiry we will have to field in any new acquaintance) that the quality of our reception is likely to be decided.

Art builds up self-knowledge, and is an excellent way of communicating the resulting fruit to other people.

Wanting to sound like other people has its temptations. There are inherited habits of speech guaranteed to make us sound authoritative, intelligent, worldly, appropriately grateful, or deeply moved.

He will need to learn that love is a skill rather than an enthusiasm.