Quotes About Communication

Knowing comedy is knowing human nature.

Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature?

A tardiness in nature, Which often leaves the history unspoke, That it intends to do.

Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.

I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else.

Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.

Hugo?' 'Millicent?' 'Is that you?' 'Yes. Is that you?' 'Yes.' Anything in the nature of misunderstanding was cleared away. It was both of them.

It's part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a room with no one else for 15 minutes, we'd be at each other's throats.

Nature is the common, universal language, understood by all.

There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!

I sometimes find it half a sin, To put to words the grief i feel, For words like nature,half reveal, and half conceal the soul within.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

In order to like someone you don't necessarily need to agree with them. It's part of our nature to want to connect.

The eye transmits its own image through the air to all the objects which face it, and also receives them on its own surface, whence the "sensus communis" takes them and considers them.

If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.

Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she, instead of fewer.

Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word is inherent in all powerful phrase-making.

Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language.

When you start off by telling those who disagree with you that they are not merely in error but in sin, how much of a dialogue do you expect?

One can understand nature only when one has learned the language and the signs in which it speaks to us; but this language is mathematics and these signs are methematical figures.

Learning to write for the theatre is learning to be a human being, because the theatre by its very nature makes you deal with other human beings.

I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree.

I think being open-minded about what Nature is trying to tell you is the key to being creative and successful.