Languages Communication Quotes

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.

Human suffering is articulated in language; communication is how we seek help, consolation, etc.

Two monologues do not make a dialogue.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

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

All that has been integrated into NVC has been known for centuries about consciousness, language, communication skills, and use of power that enable us to maintain a perspective of empathy for ourselves and others, even under trying conditions.

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

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

I never miss a good chance to shut up

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

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

The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.

Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.

Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Teacher, school administrators and parents will come away from Life-Enriching Education with skills in language, communication, and ways of structuring the learning environment that support the development of autonomy and interdependence in the classroom.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.