You cannot reason someone into believing something they haven't reasoned about themselves.

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tell the truth interestingly.

However, advertising is never lying; it is a matter of illumination.

In silence, Bird reflected sadly on his wife's misconception of the nature of Swahili.

Ridicule was a better defense than truth.

A society where you're not allowed to blow your own trumpet is so much more nuanced, sophisticated and interesting than the grim world of literalism that's being ushered in.

Anything else I should know

I'm not speaking to hear myself talk, Mr. Cronyn. I told you to be quiet. One more interruption and I will have you silenced.

In order to be solved, a problem first of all has to be a problem. What we mean by this is that the translation of a vaguely stated problem into concrete terms permits the crucial separation of...

You're getting too emotional.

At detumescence, after all, there is conversation, that is where love begins.

You don't correct a president. You merely compliment them on their wisdom in seeking your counsel.

She learned her first two signs five weeks later, on - let's see here - June 4, 1967. They were hug and me. On June 6, she spontaneously signed Hug me Jennie to Mrs. Archibald, her surrogate mother....

I wasn't sure how to answer. Could I tell him that one Secret of Adulthood is "Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense'?"

He has a saying: he'll only believe what can be written on a postcard.

Ultimately,we hear things because we cannot see everything.

Say whatever your memory suggests is true; but add nothing and exaggerate nothing.

So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in. If the word had not been spoken, it would not have happened.

...always felt the pain of her friends so keenly that she could not speak easy, fluent words of comforting. Besides, she remembered how well-meant speeches had hurt her in her own sorrow and was...

There is indeed power in words. Most of the lasting change that has been forged in the history of this world came not from a wielding of the swift and bloody sword of battle but from the shaping...

You confuse not speaking with not listening.

Bad news always travels faster than good.

Still waters run deep, I'd thought. Later, I learned that silence did not necessarily guarantee depth.

Nowadays anyone with a crap laptop and an Internet connection can sound their barbaric yawp, whatever it may be.

Interruptions were sometimes more frequent than statements. The process, compared to a well-managed executive conference, was a slab of raw beef compared to a wiring diagram. Raw beef, however,...

Like animals we call to each other, was the thought that came to him as he remembered the hour of love in the afternoon.

1} Remain silent you share of the time {more rather than less}. 2} Be attentive while others are talking. 3} Say what you think but be careful not to hurt others' feelings. 4} Avoid topics not of...

This was what was keeping me awake at night,' Walter said. 'This fragmentation. Because it's the same problem everywhere. It's like the internet, or cable TV- there's never any center, there's no...

The most important thing in human relationship is conversation. But people don't talk anymore, they don't sit down to talk and listen. They go to theatre, the cinema, watch television, listen to the...