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Communication Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

75 Communication quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson writes about how a simple walk can teach us about speech and curiosity. He sees conversation as a circle where every word competes, and he calls good speech a kind of music that can heal. He also compares parts of language to nature, saying the whole world works like a metaphor for the mind.

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Conversation is a game of circles.

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We know more from nature than we can at will communicate.

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A man of no conversation should smoke.

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What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

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A good indignation makes an excellent speech.

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Conversation is an evanescent relation,--no more.

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The best of life is conversation.

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Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.

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I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.

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The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

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The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech.

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Great conversation ... requires an absolute running of two souls into one.

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But a public oration is an escapade, a non-committal, an apology, a gag, and not a communication, not a speech, not a…

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Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation…

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Society is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes.

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There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.

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Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor,…

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Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in…

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It is commonly said by farmers, that a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear, than a…

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I feel the same truth how often in my trivial conversation with my neighbours, that somewhat higher in each of us overlooks…

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The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this…

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In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking…

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The action of the soul is oftener in that which is felt and left unsaid than in that which is said in…

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I appeal now to the convictions of the communicants, and ask such persons whether they have not been occasionally conscious of a…

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There is a mortifying experience in particular, which does not fail to wreak itself also in the general history; I mean "the…

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Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her…

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The moment our discourse rises above the ground-line of familiar facts, and is inflamed with passion or exalted thought, it clothes itself…

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Don't hang a dismal picture on the wall, and do not daub with sables and glooms in your conversation. Don't be a…

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In excited conversation we have glimpses of the universe, hints of power native to the soul, far-darting lights and shadows of an…

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There is a principle which is the basis of things, which all speech aims to say, and all action to evolve, a…

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We cannot describe the natural history of the soul, but we know that it is divine. All things are known to the…

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If we consider what happens in conversation, in reveries, in remorse, in times of passion, in surprises, in the instructions of dreams,…

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“It is a secret which every intellectual man quickly learns, that, beyond the energy of his possessed and conscious intellect, he is…

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“Put any company of people together with freedom for conversation, and a rapid self-distribution takes place into sets and pairs. The best…

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“In good company there is never such discourse between two, across the table, as takes place when you leave them alone. In…

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“It is the best of humanity, I think, that goes out to walk. In happy hours all affairs may be wisely postponed…

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The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what…

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Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into…

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All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great.

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“We know more from nature than we can at will communicate. Its light flows into the mind evermore, and we forget its…

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The order of things consents to virtue.

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A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

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No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

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I am; therefore, I had nothing better to do than to think.

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