Quotes About Dialogue

Conversations with adults other than a person's parents had more of an outcome.

The world requires me to re-write its wretched dialogue!

the time has come to rehabilitate rational discourse on the subject. It is hard to imagine a democratic society doing otherwise.

Machine idiolect. It doesn't matter how sophisticated they get, they still end up sounding like a playgroup learning box. I sighed and looked directly ahead at the slice-of-virtual-life holos on the wall. "You want out, now'd be a good time to tell me." "I do not want out, Takeshi Kovacs. I merely wished to acquaint you with the considerations involved in this course of action." "Okay. I'm acquainted.

There's always talk. It's the same price as rain.

Dear Adrian – or rather, Dear Adrian and Veronica (hello, Bitch, and welcome to this letter)

You marry to continue the conversation.

The couple that never talk to each other never discover how little they have in common.

she would be incapable of not broaching. It took

I hear you. I just don't believe a word you say.

Ana wished very much that she could discuss this with Faolan

Well, first I would ask them if they had read the Bible; then I would ask them if they had understood it.

Wouldn't it be common sense to ask at once what I meant, without brooding over it?

When the sister said that the sea was expressionless, the brother answered that that was not true at all, that it was the best of talkers.

And before you embark on an argument or a debate, ask yourself honestly if you are ready to change your mind.

dialogue led participants not to certainty but to a shocking realization of the profundity of human ignorance. However carefully, logically, and rationally Socrates and his friends analyzed a topic, something always eluded them.

And although it is important to fight persecution and oppression, the Qur'an constantly reminds Muslims that it is much better to sit down and solve the problem by courteous discussion.

You entered into a Socratic dialogue in order to change; the object of the exercise was to create a new, more authentic self.

We are a talkative and opinionated society and not always good at listening

we rarely convey our thoughts adequately to others and this makes our relationships with other people problematic.

The Socratic dialogue was a spiritual exercise designed to produce a profound psychological change in the participants, and because its purpose was that each person should understand the depth of his ignorance, there was no way that anybody could win. Plato

we may need to find a way of posing Socratic questions that lead to personal insight rather than simply repeating the facts as we see them yet again. We

He can cook? In a manner of speaking, Mrs. Treadwell said, cheerfully. What manner of speaking is that?

Stop flirting. With you, every sentence is an offer. "And with you, every sentence is a challenge.