Communication Quotes

"It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open " "In case of dissension never dare to judge till you've heard the other side" "The tongue is mightier than the blade" "I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the lips, but also the failure to tell the whole truth, thus entailing deception" "I like good strong words that mean something." "Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools." "He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak " "I speak the truth but I guess that's a foreign language to y'all" "When you don't talk down to your audience, then they can grow with you" "If there's one thing I've learned in life, it's the power of using your voice." "One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people’s minds" "They can never understand me, I got my own language" "A lot of truth is said in jest" "Man is the storytelling animal." "If you don't have anything to say, don't say anything" "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."