People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other.
—Martin Luther King Jr.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
—Peter Drucker
Most pets display so many humanlike traits and emotions it’s easy to forget they’re not gifted with the English language and then get snubbed when we talk to them and they don’t say anything back.
—Stephenie Geist
I believe that animals have been talking to human beings ever since we were all made and put into this world.
—Barbara Woodhouse
Language is the source of misunderstandings.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
—Henry Adams
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
—George Eliot
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
—Douglas Adams
Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.
—Earl Wilson
Well, it’s simple to love someone. But it’s hard to know when you need to say it out loud.
—Rebecca Stead in When You Reach Me
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
—Frank Moore Colby
People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
—Max Beerbohm
There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.
—Jessamyn West
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh