Communication Quote by Michel de Montaigne

A speech belongs half to the speaker and half to the listener.

— Michel de Montaigne

“Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener.”

— Michel de Montaigne

Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.

— Michel de Montaigne

“The communication is made only by 7% from the verbal part, the pure content, the remaining 93% is divided between non-verbal (55%), that is…

— Robert James

Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,--whither it flows back again.

— John Sterling

The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it.

— Michel de Montaigne

The whole end of speech is to be understood.

— Confucius

When I speak it is in order to be heard.

— Roman Jakobson

Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.

— Ferdinand de Saussure

Speech is the voice of the heart.

— Anna Quindlen

Speech is the index of the mind.

— Seneca the Younger

The most important part of any speech is the people that are listening to it respond to it and appreciate it.

— Jerome Bettis