Communication Quotes

"It is merely an accident of history that it is considered normal in our society to believe that the creator of the universe can hear your thoughts, while it is demonstrative of mental illness to believe that he is communicating with you by having a dinner conversation with you." "We have a choice between conversation and war. That is all. " "Out of anger comes controversy, out of controversy comes conversation, out of conversation comes action." "A word is dead when it is said, some say I say it just begins to live that day " "Macrology may smell of artifice, but brevity may also cloak falsification." "The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it " "Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts." "Arguments are to be avoided they are always vulgar and often convincing" "The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow nor the lion the horse how he shall take his prey" "There is nothing to express, nothing with which to express, nothing from which to express, no power to express, no desire to express, together with the obligation to express." "Words are all we have." "There are two types of people in the world: those who try to win and those who try to win arguments. They are never the same" "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say" "I meant what I said and I said what I meant" "If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool"