Quotes about Communication

Everybody lies--every day; every hour; awake; asleep; in his dreams; in his joy; in his mourning; if he keeps his tongue still, his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude, will convey deception--and purposely. Even in sermons--but that is a platitude.

Now and then a division-agent was really obliged to shoot a hostler through the head to teach him some simple matter that he could have taught him with a club if his circumstances and surroundings had been different. But they were snappy, able men, those division-agents, and when they tried to teach a subordinate anything, that subordinate generally got it through his head.

There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.

People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they have not communicated with each other.

The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die

You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt

It's just as well for two fellows to know the worst of one another before they begin to live together.

With the unreasonable petulance of mankind I rang the bell and gave a curt intimation that I was ready.

Come at once if convenient—if inconvenient come all the same. S.H.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

Journalists are like dogs?when ever anything moves they begin to bark.

Deny that the Bible is, without any qualifications, the very Word of God, and you are left without any ultimate standard of measurement and without any supreme authority. Grant that the Bible is a Divine revelation and communication of God's own mind and will to men, and you have a fixed starting point from which an advance can be made into the domain of truth.