"If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions."

Smalley, Gary on marriage
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"I am, I must confess, suspicious of those who denounce others for having too much sex. At what point does a healthy amount become too much? There are, of course, those who suffer because their desire for sex has become compulsive; in their case the drive (loneliness, guilt) is at fault, not the activity as such. When morality is discussed I invariably discover, halfway into the conversation, that what is meant are not the great ethical questions but the rather dreary business of sexual habit, which to my mind is an aesthetic rather than an ethical issue."

White, Edmund on sex   

"How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and pour forth in careless and picturesque phrase all the results of his studies and observation; his knowledge of men, books, and nature. On the contrary, if a man has by any chance an original idea, he hoards it as if it were old gold; and rather avoids the subject with which he is most conversant, from fear that you may appropriate his best thoughts."

Disraeli, Benjamin on inhibition   

"No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society."

Taylor, Jeremy on children   

"It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation has got to have some root in the past, or else you have got to explain every remark you make, and it wears a person out."

Jewett, Sarah Orne on history and historians   

"The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others."

Phelps, William Lyon on happiness
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"I've noticed two things about men who get big salaries. They are almost invariably men who, in conversation or in conference, are adaptable. They quickly get the other fellow's view. They are more eager to do this than to express their own ideas. Also, they state their own point of view convincingly."

Hallock, John on communication   

"It is hardly surprising that children should enthusiastically start their education at an early age with the Absolute Knowledge of computer science; while they are unable to read, for reading demands making judgments at every line. Conversation is almost dead, and soon so too will be those who knew how to speak."

Debord, Guy on computers   

"I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it -- yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I don't give it forty years more. Witness the decline of conversation. Only the Irish have remained incomparable conversationalists, maybe because technical progress has passed them by."

Welles, Orson on cinema   

"So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side."

Johnson, Samuel on youth   

"Geniuses themselves don't talk about the gift of genius, they just talk about hard work and long hours."

Penney, J. C. (James Cash) on genius
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"When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself."

Plato on psychology
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"Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know."

Rohn, Jim on communication
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"Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on communication   

"Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people."

Yeats, William Butler on language
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"The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self."

White, Elwyn Brooks on communication
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"Communication is depositing a part of yourself in another person."

Unknown, Source on communication
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"Extremists think communication means agreeing with them."

Rosten, Leo on communication   

"When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated."

Nader, Ralph on neighbors   

"A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered ;about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals."

Hutchins, Robert M. on communication   

"To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others."

Robbins, Anthony on communication
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"The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it."

Shaw, George Bernard on conversion   

"Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one other -- only in certain types of society can science flourish, and conversely without a continuous and healthy development and application of science such a society cannot function properly."

Parsons, Talcott on science   

"Saying what we think gives a wider range of conversation than saying what we know."

Hightower, Cullen on conversation
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"Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are."

Stanhope, Philip Dormer on association   

"The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably."

Atwell on communication   

"Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new."

Temple, Sir William on books - reading
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"He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful."

Smith, Sydney on silence   

"A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short."

Maurois, Andre on marriage
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"Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on solitude
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"Nothing lowers the level on conversation more than raising the voice."

Horowitz, Stanley on conversation
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"What is reading, but silent conversation."

Landor, Walter Savage on books - reading
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"The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on conversation   

"Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all. How do we define this lively darting about with words, of hitting them back and forth, this sort of brief smile of ideas which should be conversation?"

Maupassant, Guy de on conversation
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"I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits."

Locke, John on ask   

"The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you."

Bruyere, Jean De La on conversation   

"For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, businesswise?"

Burton, Bruce on communication   

"To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations -- such is pleasure beyond compare."

Kenko, Yoshida on books - reading   

"It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought."

Repplier, Agnes on conversation   

"Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood."

Shakespeare, William on conversation
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