Quotes About Communication

Knowledge and wisdom comes from interaction-- not from inaction.

Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Filthy language is used by people who don't have the maturity or intelligence to express themselves with better words.

All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to.

I think intelligence is usually sexy until it becomes irritating. After that, you're stuck.

I've always learned how to deal with my problems through my words, through my education, and through my intelligence, which I think is important and the best way to deal with an issue.

I don't care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces 'intelligence.

Intellect doesn't translate across cultures; intuition does.

Communications without intelligence is noise. Intelligence without communications is irrelevant.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.

He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.

The great charm of conversation consists less in the display of one's own wit and intelligence than in the power to draw forth the resources of others.

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

This is how you communicate with a fellow intelligence: You hurt it, you keep on hurting it, until you can distinguish the speech from the screams.

Language does for intelligence what the wheel does for the feet and the body. It enables them to move from thing to thing with greater ease and speed and ever less involvement.

TV news is as bloody as Shakespeare but without the intelligence and the poetry. If you watch television news you know less about the world than if you drank gin out of a bottle

What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness.

A consumer is not a moron. She's your wife. Don't insult her intelligence, and don't shock her.

Advertising must respect the intelligence of its audience and if it does not prompt them to think, it will be instantly dismissed.

If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, it's probably because your heart is talking.

No man of any intelligence would pretend to know a female mind.

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with their command of obscure words.