Quotes About Communication

How can I enter into dialogue if I always project ignorance onto others and never perceive my own?...How can I enter into dialogue if I am closed to - and even offended by - the contribution of others? At the point of encounter there are neither yet ignoramuses nor perfect sages; there are only people who are attempting, together, to learn more than they now know.

One must seek to live with others in solidarity..only through communication can human life hold meaning.

El educador ya no es solo el que educa sino aquel que, en tanto que educa, es educado a través del diálogo con el educando, quien, al ser educado, también educa. [...] Nadie educa a nadie, así como tampoco nadie se educa a sí mismo, las personas se educan entre sí con el mundo como mediador.

Language is being used to make social inequality invisible.

Without this faith in people, dialogue is a farce which inevitably degenerates into paternalistic manipulation.

Were it not possible to dialogue with the people before power is taken, because they have no experience with dialogue, neither would it be possible for the people to come to power, for they are equally inexperienced in the use of power.

Both education and the investigation designed to support it must be "sympathetic" activities, in the etymological sense of the word. That is, they must consist of communication and of the common experience of a reality perceived in the complexity of its constant "becoming.

Along the same lines, it is indispensable to analyze the contents of newspaper editorials following any given event: "Why do different newspapers have such different interpretations of the same fact?" This practice helps develop a sense of criticism, so that people will react to newspapers or news broadcasts not as passive objects of the "communiqués" directed at them, but rather as consciousnesses seeking to be free.

O diálogo é o encontro dos homens para Ser Mais

How can I enter into dialogue if I always project ignorance onto others and ignore my own? How can I enter into dialogue if I regard myself as a case apart from other men [sic]?

If the structure does not permit dialogue the structure must be changed

One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding.

language is never neutral

Marriage means expectations and expectations mean conflict.

To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.

Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then, Life is dull without it.

Sometimes you have to show them what they want to see in order to get them to show you who they really are.

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

For voice to be meaningful, there must be those willing to listen.

Me gustan los escritores que hablan sobre el hecho de escribir y citan continuamente frases de otros autores

Cuál es la diferencia entre un guion y una novela? La una es un relato cuya principal herramienta es la palabra, y el otro basa su impacto en las imágenes sin prescindir de la palabra, por eso hay guiones a los que se les califica de muy literarios, porque los personajes hablan mucho.

Necesitamos las palabras para saber quiénes somos o qué queremos.

Perhaps his greatest lesson is that philosophical rigor does not have to be pedantic.