Quotes about Communication

Never argue. In society nothing must be; give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation.

Usually we regard as meaningful that which can be expressed, and as meaningless that which cannot be expressed. Yet, the equation of the meaningful and the expressible ignores a vast realm of human experience, and is refuted by our sense of the ineffable which is an awareness of an allusiveness to meaning without the ability to express it.

To employ words is not the same as to understand what they mean. Moreover, the relation between words and their meanings is elastic. Words remain, while meanings are subject to change.

The act of revelation is a mystery, while the record of revelation is a literary fact, phrased in the language of man.

I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.

In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions.

I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.

Demagoguery is the ability to dress minor ideas with major words.

A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels.

Women are emotional creatures. You have to listen to them to figure out what they are saying. Show your wife steadfast loyalty.

Facts speak plainer than words

I will never be able to do or be everything you want, nor vice versa, but I'd like to think we can be the sort of people who will dare to tell each other who we really are. The alternative is silence and lies, which are the real enemies of love.