Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

Upon books the collective education of the race depends they are the sole instruments of registering perpetuating and transmitting thought.

The essence of the Hebrew Bible transmitted by Christianity is separation: between life and death nature and God good and evil man and woman and the holy and the profane.

We know that communication must be hampered and its form largely determined by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.

I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.