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Quotes About Communication

Hoarding knowledge ultimately erodes your power. If you know something important, the way to get power is by sharing it.
~ Joseph Badaracco
If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.
~ Francis Schaeffer
To be a writer you should read, write and talk to people, hear their knowledge, hear their problems. Be a good listener. The rest will come.
~ Jean Craighead George
Information is acquired by being told, whereas knowledge can be acquired by thinking.
~ Fritz Machlup
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available to other experiences.
~ John Dewey
Successful knowledge transfer involves neither computers nor documents but rather interactions between people.
~ Thomas H. Davenport
Without real exchange, you can't create knowledge.
~ Ikujiro Nonaka
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
~ Plato
Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people.
~ John Warnock
Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
No Discourse whatsoever, can End in absolute Knowledge of Fact.
~ Thomas Hobbes
Certain words now in our knowledge we will not use again, and we will never forget them. We need them. Like the back of the picture.
~ W. S. Merwin
Be different-if you don't have the facts and knowledge required, simply listen. When word gets around that you can listen when others tend to talk, you will be treated as a sage.
~ Ed Koch
A university should not be an island where academics attain higher and higher levels of knowledge without sharing any of this knowledge with its neighbours.
~ Muhammad Yunus
All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Primitives of our own species, even today are historically shallow in their knowledge of the past. Only the poet who writes speaks his message across the millennia to other hearts.
~ Loren Eiseley
Because of the rush of human knowledge, because of the digital revolution, I have a voice, and I do not need to scream.
~ Roger Ebert
President Reagan didn't always know what he knew.
~ Oliver North
Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.
~ Cees Nooteboom
The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation.
~ Don DeLillo, White Noise
With words at your disposal, you can see more clearly. Finding the words is another step in learning to see.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
Do not try to entrap others with your haughty knowledge. To your wide surprise, they will entrap you with their lengthy ignorance.
~ Sri Chinmoy
I have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to disseminate knowledge throughout the world and not just to people who have broadband.
~ Jimmy Wales