Funny Quotes About Communication - Page 2

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
        — Henry David Thoreau

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
        — Willa Cather

People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.
        — Edward R. Murrow

Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood.
        — Freeman Teague Jr.

Never mistake legibility for communication.
        — David Carson

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.
        — Margaret Miller

Lying is done with words and also with silence.
        — Adrienne Rich

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
        — Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

If you cry ''Forward'' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions?
        — Anton Chekhov