Quotes About Communication

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

If I had an argument with a player we would sit down for twenty minutes, talk about it and then decide I was right!

Give no answer to contentious arguments or irresponsible accusations. Let such things "fly out open windows" until they spend themselves.

If you want to stop an argument, close your mouth.

It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.

That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting.

The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.

Liberals want Conservatives to shut up. Conservatives want Liberals to keep talking. Because our arguments make sense and theirs don't

Rudeness is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect.

Argument need not be heated; it can be punctuated with courteous smiles - or sympathetic tears.

The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.

I am the eternal optimist. I think that, over time, people respond to civility and -- and rational argument.

With all the arguments and discussions about the Vietnam War, what did the visual image do? It ended the war.

The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

My dad shaped the footballing side of me, and Mum shaped me as a person. I've always been very close to her - we've only ever had one argument, and that was over something stupid when I was 13.

In a family argument, if it turns out you are right, apologize at once.

How could an argument soothe or settle a controversy when every word is a nest for a bird of doubt? (meaning of words as inferences)

How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument." [Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

The only person who listens to both sides of an argument is the fellow in the next apartment.

An argument in a couple: 2 people attempting to introduce each other to important truths - by panicked shouting.

Offense is what people take when they can't take argument.

One of the best ways of keeping your temper in an argument, as most of us know only too well, is not to listen to anything the other person has to say.