Quotes About Communication

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed

Avevo il cuore gonfio... Ci separammo senza esserci capiti. Del resto è difficile capirsi a questo mondo.

The world admires wealth and velocity—these are the things for which everyone strives. Railroads, the post, steamboats, and all possible modes of communication are the means by which the world overeducates itself and freezes itself in mediocrity.

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed that can make life a garden.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages,knows nothing of their own.

A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions.

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverable for ourselves and for others.

When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

No one has ever properly understood me, I have never fully understood anyone; and no one understands anyone else

A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.

Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiß nichts von seiner eigenen.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.

It is in vain that a man of sound mind and cool temper understands the condition of such a wretched being... He can no more communicate his own wisdom to him than a healthy man can instil his strength into the invalid by whose bedside he is seated.

nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

For many people, one of the most frustrating aspects of life is not being able to understand other people's behavior.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

We would not say very much in company if we realized how often we misunderstand what others say.

Whatever truths or fables you may find in a thousand books, it is all a tower of Babel unless love holds it together.