Quotes About Communication

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.

Your actions speak so loudly, I can not hear what you are saying.

Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

Words are finite organs of the infinite mind.

It is a luxury to be understood.

Every word was once a poem.

Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images, or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.

Our best thoughts come from others.

A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.

The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech.

Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you have omitted every word that he can spare.

Always the seer is a sayer. Somehow his dream is told; somehow he publishes it with solemn joy: sometimes with pencil on canvas, sometimes with chisel on stone, sometimes in towers and aisles of granite, his soul's worship is builded; sometimes in anthems of indefinite music, but clearest and most permanent, in words.

Else if you would be a man speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon balls, and to-morrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.

Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.

Who you are is speaking so loudly that I can't hear what you're saying

That which we are, we shall teach, not voluntarily, but involuntarily. Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.

Keep your friendships in repair.

The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.

The poets made all the words and therefore language is the archives of history, and, if we must say it, a sort of tomb of the muses. For though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry.

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practical man relies on the language of the first.

The etymologist finds the deadest words to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry.