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Quotes About Dialogue

What I require is a convening of my culture's criteria, in order to confront them with my words and life as I pursue them; and at the same time to confront my words and life as I pursue them with the life my culture's words may imagine for me: to confront the culture with itself, along the lines in which it meets me.
~ Stanley Cavell
In every house of marriagethere's room for an interpreter.
~ Stanley Kunitz
Ils avaient fui les perils de la conversation pour le terrain plus rassurant des livres.
~ Stefan Zweig
María Antonieta charla exclusivamente con la boca, y no con la cabeza.
~ Stefan Zweig
After another minute Reuben brought forth the following sentence: 'I ha' scranleted two hundred furrows come five o'clock down i' the bute.' It was a difficult remark, Flora felt, to which to reply. Was
~ Stella Gibbons
I believe that one of the best ways of getting at truth is reflecting with others who have opposing views and who share your interest in finding the truth rather than being proven right
~ Ray Dalio
Whatever the field under discussion, those who engage in debate must not only believe in each other's good faith, but also in their capacity to arrive at the truth.
~ W. H. Auden
There is no trick to writing a believable love story, a heartbreaking scene or real-sounding dialogue. All you need is to tell the truth. It's always heartbreaking.
~ Ethan Hawke
I value unity because I believe we learn truth from each other in this process.
~ Rowan Williams
In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth! (Hercule Poirot)
~ Agatha Christie
Does truth prevail more if we are not on speaking terms with those whose view of truth differs from ours?
~ C. H. Dodd
Your truth will increase as you know listen to the truth of others
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ultimate truth, if there be such a thing, demands the concert of many voices.
~ Carl Jung
The lies are in the dialogue, the truth is in the visuals.
~ Kelly Reichardt
The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.
~ Michael Graves
In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
~ Samuel Johnson
The truth came slowly like a story told by people interrupting each other.
~ Paula Fox
All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.
~ Plato
Theory now: concern for truth must not hobble our discussion.
~ Mason Cooley
Talking with most people usually involves a search for truth. Talking with congressmen is strictly special effects.
~ Jack McDevitt
A seeker of truth will never begin by discounting his opponent's statement as unworthy of trust.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Of the things I know to be true in life, right at the top of the list of irrefutable truths is, "No one ever listens to anyone." It might even be No. 1.
~ Merrill Markoe
Shift the dynamic as much as you can, so you hear the truth from people that have lived experience. Listen intently and honor their experience.
~ Peter Buffett
Truth is, generally I like film festivals; somewhere at some level there's an exchange of ideas.
~ Willem Dafoe