Mutual Comprehension Quotes

The basic agreement between human beings, indeed what makes them human and makes them social, is language.

We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other.

I think laughter between people is a holy form of connection, of communion. It's the way you and I look at each other and without words, say, I get exactly what you're saying. And so, it's important to me.

Everyone has to understand what we're saying to one another and there's no point in me thinking the line means this and the person I'm speaking to thinks it means something else. So there's a certain amount of analyzing of text that's of course necessary.

When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes.

A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.

No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.

We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.

It's important that the sexes understand each other.

The communication of ideas requires a similitude of thought and language . . .

A person of definite character and purpose who comprehends our way of thought is sure to exert power over us. He cannot altogether be resisted; because, if he understands us, he can make us understand him, through the word, the look, or other symbol.

Neither the mouse nor the boy was the least bit surprised that each could understand the other. Two creatures who shared a love for motorcycles naturally spoke the same language.

That others grasp what I have in mind seems unessential, at least as long as they have something else in theirs.