4 Abraham Lincoln Quotes on Communication

Abraham Lincoln quotes on communication

106. He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

118. It is better to stay silent and let people think you are an idiot than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

147. The characteristic which struck me most was his superabundance of common sense. His power of managing men, of deciding and avoiding difficult questions, surpassed that of any man I ever met. A keen insight of human nature had been cultivated by the trials and struggles of his early life. He knew the people and how to reach them better than any man of his time. I heard him tell a great many stories, many of which would not do exactly for the drawing-room; but for the person he wished to reach, and the object he desired to accomplish with the individual, the story did more than any argument could have done.

164. The cheek of every American must tingle with shame as he reads the silly, flat and dishwatery utterances of the man who has to be pointed out to intelligent foreigners as the President of the United States.