Quotes About Communication

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.

Sometimes to be silent is to lie.

Eso de amor -decíase Ramiro ahora- sabe a libro; sólo en el teatro y en las novelas se oye el yo te amo; en la vida de la carne y sangre y hueso el entrañable ¡te quiero! y el más entrañable aún callárselo.

Não tenho medo das palavras, mas calo-me.

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

Es el encanto de la conversación, de hablar por hablar, del hablar roto a interrumpido

Los hombres de palabra primero dicen una cosa y después la piensan, y por último la hacen, resulte bien o mal luego de pensada; los hombres de palabra no se rectifican ni se vuelven atrás de lo que una vez han dicho.

A man who succeeded in never contradicting himself was to be strongly suspected of never saying anything at all.

No debe importarnos tanto lo que uno quiera decir como lo que diga sin querer...

La palabra, este producto social, se ha hecho para mentir.

Me parece ridículo el monopolio que los castellanos de Castilla y países asimilados quieren ejercer sobre la lengua literaria, como si fuese un feudo de heredad. Ni aun la anarquía lingüística debe asustarnos; cada cual procurará que le entiendan, por la cuenta que le tiene.

La mujer sólo ama a su hombre mientras no piense como ella, es decir, mientras piense.

Pues porque a la gente le gusta la conversación por la conversación misma, aunque no diga nada

Nos miramos a los ojos con una de esas miradas que desnudan las almas, nos vimos éstas al desnudo

At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right

If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.

Men shout to avoid listening to one another.

Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.

We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions — perhaps so that we could believe in them.

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what they're talking about.

If others tell us something we make assumptions, and if they don't tell us something we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know and to replace the need to communicate. Even if we hear something and we don't understand we make assumptions about what it means and then believe the assumptions. We make all sorts of assumptions because we don't have the courage to ask questions.

Nothing that your partner does is personal. Your partner is dealing with her own garbage. If you don't take it personally, it will be so easy for you to have a wonderful relationship with your partner

Cláudia, não precisas de falar só porque vamos calados. A coisa mais difícil e mais bonita de partilhar entre duas pessoas é o silêncio.