Joseph Campbell Quotes

Communication is everyone's panacea for everything.

Nobody is ever misunderstood at a fireside; he may only be disagreed with.

Everybody talks and everybody listens, and somehow the truth just always comes up missin.

Most of the time, communication gets confused with conversation. In fact, the two are distinctly different.

The best things cannot be told because they transcend thought. The second best are misunderstood because they are the thoughts that are supposed to refer to that which cannot be thought about. The third best are what we talk about.

Our ideas need to become part of everyday discussion.

It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that, whatever you say to them, they always purr: "If they would only purr for 'yes,' and mew for 'no,; or any rule of that sort," she had said, "so that one could keep up a conversation! But how can you talk with a person if they always say the same thing?

My scripts are possibly too talkative.

We speak now or I do, and others do. You've never spoken before. You will. You'll be able to say how the city is a pit and a hill and a standard and an animal that hunts and a vessel on the sea and the sea and how we are fish in it, not like the man who swims weekly with fish but the fish with which he swims, the water, the pool. I love you, you light me, warm me, you are suns. You have never spoken before.

The only reason why we wish to exchange thoughts is that we are different. If we were all the same, we would die dumb. No thought would be expressed after we found that our thoughts were precisely alike. We differ-our thoughts are different. Therefore the commerse that we call conversation.

When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?

CONVERSATION is the vehicle for change.

I think that's the most important thing: that we create dialogue.

One must talk. That's how it is. One must.

It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil," said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

Talk is free. You never know what's going to happen after you talk. There's always a perception about a guy until you actually sit down and talk with him.

...every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.

Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.

We are more anxious to speak than to be heard.

Rosabelle - answer - tell - pray, answer - look - tell - answer, answer - tell.

Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.

You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate.

Tacos." "Tacos?" I echoed. This seemed to amuse him. "Tomatoes, lettuce, cheese." "I know what a taco is!

Talking payes no toll.

Speaking is a beautiful folly; with that man dances over all things.