Quotes About Communication

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.

In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.

Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a person of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment recall

Indeed, half the battle of living a playful life lies in committing yourself to authentic communication. The fun of engagement with others soon follows.

Don't ask questions. 2. Learn from them as the experts on their disability. 3. Always agree with everything they say, never interrupting them.

In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less.

We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.

The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.

About this time the tremendous invention of printing was achieved, and Columbus unwittingly discovered the New World. The

Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the congenitally blind, to see with another person's eyes.

We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Talking is like playing on the harp; there is as much in laying the hands on the strings to stop their vibration as in twanging them to bring out their music.

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.

Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies they are ready enough to tell them.

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.

The minute a phrase becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.

I would never use a long word where a short one would answer the purpose. I know there are professors in this country who 'ligate' arteries. Other surgeons only tie them, and it stops the bleeding just as well.