communication Quotes

Rhetoric is the counterpart of logic; since both are conversant with subjects of such a nature as it is the business of all to have a certain knowledge of, and which belong to no distinct science. Wherefore all men in... ...

Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver.

When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer.

When preparing a speech, one must consider three things: how to convince people, the language to use, and the proper order of the speech parts.

The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own.

Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.

It is not sufficient to know what one ought to say, but one must also know how to say it.

My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

Some animals make a loud sound. Some are quiet, and others have a voice, which sometimes can be put into words; other times it cannot. There are also noisy animals and quiet animals, musical and unmusical types, but they are... ...