Communication Quote by Tom Rachman

“He was a man who formed opinions as he spoke them, or perhaps afterward, requiring him to ramble at length to grasp what he…

— Tom Rachman

“He was a man who regarded his opinions, however briefly adopted, as revealed truth: he never backed down, or listened, or compromised. He was…

— Ben Macintyre

“He was the type of man who had his own sense of logic and reached his own conclusions without regard to the opinions of…

— Haruki Murakami

“Speech was given to man to conceal his thoughts.”

— Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

“It was that his words, his telling, just did not synchronize with what his hearers believed would (and must) be the scope of a…

— William Faulkner

“He "had developed a trick in college for speaking with authority. He believed that breaking his argument into numbers forced people to pay attention.…

— Anonymous

“Words which he did not understand he said over and over to himself till he had learnt them by heart: and through them he…

— James Joyce

“He detested objective truths, the burden of argument, sustained reasoning. He disliked demonstrating, he wanted to convince no one. Others are a dialectician’s invention.”

— Emil Cioran

“He was hungry to learn about things. Unlike most of us, he was the sort of person who insisted on living out his beliefs.”

— Wayne Westerberg

“He read greedily but understood selectively, choosing the bits and pieces of other men's ideas that supported whatever predilection he had at the moment.”

— Toni Morrison

“He was more interested in listening and gathering information than in asserting his opinion or dominating a conversation. He was also widely admired; when…

— Susan Cain

“His elucidation was so minute and clear, and his metaphysical reasonings so acute and captivating, that his opinion was universally accepted as an historical…

— Kaiten Nukariya