“If our minds are blocked, there is no device that will make up for our inability to communicate with ourselves or others.”
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C.S. Lewis
3 quotes“We appear to be saying something very important aboutsomething: and actually we are only saying something about our own...”
Marshall McLuhan
2 quotes“The medium is the message.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
2 quotes“Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it...”
Alfred Whitehead
2 quotes“Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.”
Stephen Covey
2 quotes“The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.”
Marcel Proust
2 quotes“Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.”
Ben Jonson
2 quotes“Language most shews a man: Speak, that I may see thee.”
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...”
Ursula K. LeGuin
2 quotes“He seemed not to know the uses of silence.”
Thomas Mann
2 quotes“Speech is civilization itself.”
Aristophanes
1 quote“Open your mind before your mouth”
André Gide
1 quote“The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say — because they were too o...”