quotes-communication

"I have never once in my life learned anything from any man
who agreed with me." - Dudley Field Malone

"The older I grow, the more I listen to people who don't say much."
- Germain G. Glidden

"Because you're not what I have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are."
- Madeline L'Engle

"Wise men talk because they have something to say;
fools talk because they have to say something." - Plato

"A man never discloses his own character so clearly
as when he discribes another's" - Jean Paul Richter

"The only real security in a relationship lies neither in looking back in nostalgia, nor forward in dread or anticipation, but living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now." - Loren Eiseley

"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words
when one will do." - Thomas Jefferson

"The real art of conversation is not to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." - Dorothy Nevill

"Oh... I listen a lot and talk less. You can't learn anything when you're talking."
- Bing Crosby

"The minute one utters a certainty the opposite comes to mind." - May Sarton

"I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions
I have no respect." - Edward Gibbon

"You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door." - Henry Ward Beecher

"There is no such thing as a worthless conversation,
provided you know what to listen for." - James Nathan Miller

"I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."
- Henry David Thoreau

"I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth;
but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others,
and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody."
- Benjamin Franklin

"Well timed silence hath more eloquence than speech." - Martin Fraquhar Tupper

"Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours."
- Frank Moore Colby

"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed." - Carl Jung

"Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable
things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person,
the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn
unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Never seem more learned than the people you are with.
Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden.
Do not pull it out to count the hours,
but give the time when you are asked."
- Lord Chesterfield

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