Quotes About Communication

How can I tell you what I think until I've heard what I'm going to say?

The only journey of knowledge is from the depth of one being to the heart of another.

Society develops a type of self-censorship, with the knowledge that surveillance exists - a self-censorship that is even expressed when people communicate with each other privately.

Music can be the bridge to understanding, but people have to get some knowledge.

For those of us who have a ground of knowledge which we cannot transmit to outsiders, it is perhaps more profitable to act fearlessly than to argue.

The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge.

Those who act as if they know more than their boss seldom do.

The most dangerous silence is noise; noise keeps us from hearing what we need to hear or from speaking what we need to speak.

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Eloquence is the child of knowledge. When a mind is full, like a wholesome river, it is also clear.

Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance.

The Curse of Knowledge: when we are given knowledge, it is impossible to imagine what it's like to LACK that knowledge.

Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.

We know of our own knowledge that we are human beings, and, as such, imperfect. But we are bathed by the communications industry in a ceaseless tide of inhuman, impossible perfection.

Knowledge is still power -- but today you've got to make sure you know more about your listener than their favorite song.

What's the point of having great knowledge and keeping them all to yourself?

When you teach on a familiar text, you're capitalizing on common knowledge. When you teach on an unfamiliar text, you're having to build a bridge of understanding, and we need to do that as well.

Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.

I don't know much more than I did when I was alive. Most of the stuff I know now that I didn't know then I can't put into words.

It wasn't a deception: all lovers live on partial knowledge.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

it is through the ghost [writer] that the great gift of knowledge which the inarticulate have for the world can be made available.

I always said that what I do is street knowledge, you let the street know what the politicians of today are doing, and if the politicians are listening, let them know what the streets think.

What you don't do is just say, "I've got all the ideas and all the knowledge, and listen to me."