Quotes About Dialogue

understanding is a two-way operation; the learner has to question himself and question the teacher.

Not simply by following an author's arguments, but only by meeting them as well, can the reader ultimately reach significant agreement or disagreement with his author.

conceiving the reader as conversing with the author, as talking back. After he has said, "I understand but I disagree," he can make the following remarks to the author: (1) "You are uninformed"; (2) "You are misinformed"; (3) "You are illogical—your reasoning is not cogent"; (4) "Your analysis is incomplete.

Reading a book is a kind of conversation. You may think it is not conversation at all, because the author does all the talking and you have nothing to say. If you think that, you do not realize your full obligation as a reader—and you are not grasping your opportunities.

RULE 10, and it can be expressed thus: WHEN YOU DISAGREE, DO SO REASONABLY, AND NOT DISPUTATIOUSLY OR CONTENTIOUSLY.

Marking a book is literally an expression of your differences or your agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.

knowledge can be communicated and that discussion can result in learning.

STEP 2 IN SYNTOPICAL READING: BRINGING THE AUTHORS TO TERMS

When we lack the ability to talk back to entities that are culturally and politically powerful, the very foundations of free speech and democratic society are called into question.

Don't make mournful faces at me," he added.

I don't know why Americans won't just talk about the weather like reasonable people

I could almost have felt sorry for Jermaine, who'd worn the expression of a person trying to have an important conversation with a brick wall.

So many people saying, Let's improve these problems right now! Except extremists. Extremists never wanted things to improve. They just wanted to win. They needed psychiatrists.

The minute she heard him, she wished they could talk forever.

Formal talks were, for them, summations that they made from time to time of everything that they had taught or said to their disciples. Informal talks were daily elucidations in which things were explained without reference to anything but the phenomenon itself under scrutiny.

You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.

Its impossible to initiate a rational dialogue with some one about beliefs and concepts if he has not acquired them through reason. It doesn't matter whether we are looking at God, race, or national pride.

Lo que tiene que hacer usted es empezar a evitar que los demás le escriban el diálogo. Use la cabeza que Dios le ha plantado sobre las cervicales y hágase usted mismo el libreto.

It's difficult to find a good conversationalist.

It's impossible to initiate a rational dialogue with someone about beliefs and concepts if he has not acquired them through reason. It doesn't matter whether we're looking at God, race, or national pride.

If books spoke, there wouldn't be so many deaf people around the place. What you need to do, Fernandito, is start preventing others from writing your dialogue. Use the head God planted on your neck and write your own script. Life is full of black marketeers eager to stuff their audience's brains with nonsense because that allows them to stay on their high horses and keep the carrot dangling.

Es imposible iniciar un diálogo racional con una persona respecto a creencias y conceptos que no ha adquirido mediante la razón.

Quid pro quo.» «Quid pro che?» «Latino, ragazzo. Non esistono lingue morte ma solo cervelli in letargo.»

Se i libri parlassero, non ci sarebbero tanti sordi in giro. Quello che lei deve fare, Fernandito, è cominciare a evitare che gli altri le scrivano i dialoghi. Usi la testa che Dio le ha piazzato sulle cervicali e si scriva da sé il libretto, perché la vita è piena di trafficanti avidi di riempire la testa del rispettabile pubblico con le stupidaggini che gli convengono per continuare a tenersi in groppa all'asino e con la carota in resta.