#1
Explain it to me like I’m a 4-year-old

Explain it to me like I’m a 4-year-old

-Joe Miller in Philadelphia

#2
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

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

-Peter Drucker

#3
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

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

-George Bernard Shaw

#4
Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something

Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something

-Plato

#5
Silence is the true friend that never betrays

Silence is the true friend that never betrays

-Confucius

#6
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

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

-Epictetus

#7
A different language is a different vision of life.

A different language is a different vision of life.

-Federico Fellini

#8
Words are acts

Words are acts

-Henri Bergson

#9
Verba volent, scripta manent

Verba volent, scripta manent

-Latin proverb

#10
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

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

-Ludwig Wittgenstein

#11
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

-Albert Einstein

#12
The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply

The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply

-Stephen R. Covey

#13
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

-Voltaire

#14
Silence is a source of great strength

Silence is a source of great strength

-Lao Tzu

#15
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

-Mother Theresa

#16
Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.

Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.

-J.K. Rowling

#17
The first man to use abusive language instead of his fists was the founder of civilization.

The first man to use abusive language instead of his fists was the founder of civilization.

-Sigmund Freud

#18
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

-Robert Frost

#19
A good quote is worth a thousands words

A good quote is worth a thousands words

-Captain Quote

#20
It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.

It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.

-Maurice Switzer

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