Jurgen Habermas Quotes

I've always been very aware of what I'm saying, but I'm also aware of what you're saying. I always want to make sure that my point is clear.

We always speak well when we manage to be understood.

How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.

I counted solely on the clarity of expression of my work to gain my ends.

The understanding between a non-technical writer and his reader is that he shall talk more or less like a human being and not like an Act of Parliament. I take it that the aim of such books must be to convey exact thought in inexact language... he can never succeed without the co-operation of the reader.

Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.

If we do away with semi-colons, parentheses and much else, we will lose all music, nuance and subtlety in communication - and end up shouting at one another in block capitals.

Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.

Communication is about being effective, not always about being proper.

It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.

Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

The more clearly you write, the more easily and surely you will be understood.

He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands.

I'm busy communicating ideas.... I want you to know what I'm thinking. If you feel a connection, good. If you don't, fine.

With actors and directors, it's a conversation that you have. You have to learn each other's language and learn how to communicate with each other effectively. It's really nice when you can have that communication on a level where they walk up to you and you can see by the expression on their face what they want. You don't even have to talk, it just like, "Got it!" And, you know what they want before they even ask for it.

Ser compreendido é prostituir-se.

Accept complete responsibility both for understanding and for being understood.

What most of us want is to be heard, to communicate.

The surest way to get what you need is to communicate.

If I am ever obscure in my expressions, do not fancy that therefore I am deep. If I were really deep, all the world would understand, though they might not appreciate. The perfectly popular style is the perfectly scientific one. To me an obscurity is a reason for suspecting a fallacy.

I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.

The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.

Multitudes of words are neither an argument of clear ideas in the writer, nor a proper means of conveying clear notions to the reader.