No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it’s like giving them emotional oxygen.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

Y’all are so cute and y’all talk so proper over here. I love England.

Humans cannot avoid trying to influence others. Everything we say or do is examined and interpreted by others for clues as to our intentions.

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

We shouldn’t have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

I ain’t never called nobody no redskin. I’ve never been mad, like, ‚Get out of this restaurant, you redskin.‘

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another – until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

The question isn’t, ‚What do we want to know about people?‘, It’s, ‚What do people want to tell about themselves?‘

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

On TV the people can see it. On radio you’ve got to create it.

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone’s eyes.

I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

Don’t ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can’t have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.

It’s a rather rude gesture, but at least it’s clear what you mean.

Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

I think it’s brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I’ve ever seen is called television – but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‚infinitely‘ when you mean ‚very‘; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

Saying nothing… sometimes says the most.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

I don’t go down the road of condemning.

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.

The second time around, I’ll understand that, as a husband, my wife doesn’t care about my opinions. I just need to tell her the things that will continue to help me stack the brownie points.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force – that thoughts rule the world.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.

As long as my music is real, it’s no limit to how many ears I can grab.

There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner’s inquest.