95 quotes
“Where words lose their meaning, people lose their lives.”
"The medium is the message."
— Marshall McLuhan
"Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude."
— Marcel Proust
"To be understood is to prostitute oneself"
— Fernando Pessoa
"Silence is argument carried out by other means."
— Che Guevara
"It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree."
— Charles Baudelaire
"Language most shows a man: speak that I may see thee."
— Ben Jonson
"For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody."
— Aldous Huxley
"Open your mind before your mouth"
— Aristophanes
"A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet."
— Truman Capote
"The deepest of level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless ... beyond speech ... beyond concept."
— Thomas Merton
"Speech is civilization itself."
— Thomas Mann
"Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better."
— Thomas Carlyle
"If our minds are blocked, there is no device that will make up for our inability to communicate with ourselves or others."
— Thich Nhat Hanh
"The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply."
— Stephen Covey
"In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do."
"Name, no, nothing is namable, tell, no, nothing can be told, what then, I don't know, I shouldn't have begun."
— Samuel Beckett
"For even the best err in words when they are meant to mean most delicate and almost inexpressible things."
— Rainer Maria Rilke
"Along this tree From root to crown Ideas flow up And vetoes down."
— Peter F. Drucker
"Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment."
— Pearl Buck
"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 new way."