Quotes about Communication
The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether their be any who understand it or not.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The highest compact we can make with our fellow is - "Let there be truth between us two forevermore."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The mind will quote whether the tongue does or not.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reason why men do not obey us is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson