Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Saying what we think gives a wider range of conversation than saying what we know.
Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard.
You want to be understood by the sophisticated few but you also have to be more loud somehow, otherwise your message doesn't go through.
There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words.
You can express a lot of things, a lot of action without speaking.
The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.
There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.
A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
We don't communicate in full sentences anyway. We don't need all those words.
Instead of sounding pretentious, phony, or repetitive, I'd rather not speak.