“The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say — because they were too obvious.”
Others on Communication
C.S. Lewis
3 quotes“We appear to be saying something very important aboutsomething: and actually we are only saying something about our own...”
Ursula K. LeGuin
2 quotes“He seemed not to know the uses of silence.”
Stephen Covey
2 quotes“The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.”
Ben Jonson
2 quotes“Language most shews a man: Speak, that I may see thee.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
2 quotes“Once you can communicate with yourself, you'll be able to communicate outwardly with more clarity. The way in is the way...”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
2 quotes“Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything.”
H. G. Wells
2 quotes“What a huge inaccessible lumber-room of thought and experience we amounted to, I thought; how much we are, how little we...”
Marcel Proust
2 quotes“Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.”
Thomas Mann
2 quotes“Speech is civilization itself.”
Marshall McLuhan
2 quotes“The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a ne...”
Alfred Whitehead
2 quotes“Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.”
Charles Lindbergh
1 quote“Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?”