"The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out communication is getting through.“


-Sydney J. Harris

posted in communication


The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out communication is getting through.

Other Quotes You Might Like

Discover more inspiring quotes from our collection

"The time to relax is when you don't have time for it."

-Sydney J. Harris

timeView Quote
"Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better."

-Sydney J. Harris

timeView Quote
"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."

-Sydney J. Harris

timeView Quote
"Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage."

-Sydney J. Harris

successView Quote
"If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?"

-Sydney J. Harris

powerView Quote
"Men make counterfeit money in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men."

-Sydney J. Harris

moneyView Quote

More Quotes About communication

Explore other inspiring quotes in this category

"In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people."

-Cherrie Moraga

communicationView Quote
"Art must unquestionably have a social value that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind."

-Rockwell Kent

communicationView Quote
"It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other."

-Oliver Evans

communicationView Quote
"Tim and Fritz Lang I loved working with. Not Hitchcock so much. There was no communication."

-Sylvia Sidney

communicationView Quote
"If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication."

-Richard Rosen

communicationView Quote
"To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and coordination with its users. It must appear to its users as a single, integrated personality."

-Cliff Shaw

communicationView Quote