Quotes About Communication

Make things as simple as possible but no simpler

Amerikalilar Almanlardan daha az egitimli olsalar bile onlarda daha fazla cosku ve enerji var; bu da yeni fikirlerin insanlar arasinda daha genis bir bicimde yayilmasini sagliyor.

Se você não consegue explicar algo de forma simples, você não entendeu suficientemente bem.

Corrige al sabio y será más sabio, corrige al ignorante y lo harás tú enemigo

Wenn die Menschen nur über das sprächen, was sie begreifen, dann würde es sehr still auf der Welt sein

Zettle notes, we misuse many nouns in psychology instead of verbs and thereby create semifictional entities that Kevin Everett FitzMaurice (1997) calls "thought things." Thus we say, "My feelings upset me when panic overwhelms me when I am in closed spaces" instead of, "I upset myself by panicking when I am in closed spaces.

El ignorante ataca con la boca. El sabio se defiende con el silencio.

Darkness promotes speech.

We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of what we take to be the new technology's virtues.

Words tell us what we, as a society, believe the world to be

Every time we put something into words, we simultaneously pronounce a declaration fo faith in the power of language to re-create and communicate our experience of the world, and our admission of its shortcomings to name this experience fully... All our libraries are the glorious record of that failure.

Books have long been instruments of the divinatory arts. A big library, mused Northrop Frye in one of his many notebooks, really has the gift of tongues & vast potencies of telepathic communication.

To say "I" is to draw a circle in which writer and reader share a common existence within the margins of the page, where reality and unreality rub off each other, where words and what the words name contaminate each other.

Like the sea, the Web is volatile: 70 percent of its communications last less than four months. Its virtue (its virtuality) entails a constant present-which for medieval scholars was one of the definitions of hell.23

Dictionaries collect our words both to preserve them and to give them back to us, to allow us to see what names we have given to our experience throughout time, and also to discard some of those names and renew them in an ongoing ritual of baptism.... they confirm and invigorate the lifeblood of a language.

Hier in Buenos Aires träume ich auf Spanisch von Menschen, die nicht sprechen und mich nicht hören - und immer von der Stadt, wie ich sie früher kannte, niemals, wie sie heute ist.

alguém versado nas palavras deveria usá-las para ensinar, para deleitar e para transformar; isto é, ensinar ao ignorante, deleitar o enfastiado e transformar o indolente"39

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.

When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

However expressive, symbols can never be the things they stand for.

We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. [...] By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies - all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable.

When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.