To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one’s experiences in common
Communicate Quotes
The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.
Inform all the troops that communications have completely broken down.
I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
Anyone wishing to communicate with Americans should do so by e-mail, which has been specially invented for the purpose, involving neither physical proximity nor speech.
It is a common saying that thought is free. A man can never be hindered from thinking whatever he chooses so long as he conceals what he thinks. The working of his mind is limited only by the bounds of his experience and the power of his imagination. But this natural liberty of private thinking […]
The over-all purpose of human communication is – or should be – reconciliation.
Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.
Every one of my plays is an act of optimism, because I make the assumption that it is possible to communicate with other people. The people who think “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” was a love story are a lot closer to the truth than those who think it was a tragedy. At least there […]
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
