12 Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Communication

Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes on communication

22. Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.

34. Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

80. It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.

121. A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

123. Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.

141. We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

185. Things added to things, as statistics, civil history, are inventories. Things used as language are inexhaustibly attractive.

207. Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.

269. A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.

276. Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.

280. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.

285. Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.