communication Quotes

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.