Communication Quotes

“Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.”

Blaise Pascal

“I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short.”

Blaise Pascal

“Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.”

Homer

“Words, so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.”

Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”

Rudyard Kipling

“Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

“Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.”

“The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.”

Malala Yousafzai

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”

Evelyn Beatrice Hall

“A different language is a different vision of life.”

Federico Fellini

“The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.”

J. B. Priestley

“The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.”

Dave Barry

“Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.”

Earl Wilson

“If you can't convince them, confuse them.”

Harry S. Truman

“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.”

Hans Hofmann

“Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.”

John Wayne

“Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible.”

Virginia Satir

“Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.”

Rita Mae Brown

“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words.”

Philip K. Dick

“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”

“To be interesting, be interested.”

Dale Carnegie

“Remember that a person's name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language.”

Dale Carnegie

“Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.”

“Speak, so that I may see you.”

“To use harsh words when sweet ones are at hand is like picking unripe fruit when ripe fruit is there.”

Thiruvalluvar