Communication

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

-- Abraham Lincoln

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

-- Abraham Lincoln

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

-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.

-- Mignon McLaughlin

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

-- John Stuart Mill

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.

-- John Stuart Mill

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

-- Mother Teresa

It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.

-- Tom Robbins

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

-- George Bernard Shaw

He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.

-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay

If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.

-- James McNeill Whistler

Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will.

-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway