Quotes About Dialogue

Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.

American colleges are now increasingly reflexive in maintaining politically correct dialogue over controversy, and some say universities have lost sight of education's ultimate purpose.

A truly great university is a nucleus of artistic expression. It fosters creative, critical thought, and serves as a platform for civil discourse.

People learn racism through dialogue. Somebody tells them about it. So if you can learn it through dialogue, you can also unlearn it through dialogue.

Unless you do an Archie and Edith Bunker, there's not much left In TV for husband-wife conversation.

Women, tend to talk more than men, and they do this thing where they say things that can easily be shown. Like, they don't need to do that.

That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even an eloquence in it

I don't see Dior as something that could become mine. I see it as a dialogue with the women who wear it. I want to stay connected to them rather than to an abstract brand.

Real-life discussions involve a great many bores and boors who have never learned that the art of conversation demands listening as well as talking.

At its heart, all intellectual and emotional life is a conversation, and the conversation begins at birth.

There are men who talk of women and others who talk to them. I don't talk of them, I prefer talking to them

Men are capable of talking hours on end over only one subject; women do it and don't even require a subject.

Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.

My husband, Nick Chiles and I wrote a number of relationship books together, and what we found was that women were thirsty to hear directly from men.

I think it's wrong to write in a totally esoteric language when you want to talk about things which interest a multitude of women.

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

If there's one thing I've learned about women, which I try to pass on to my boys, it's listening. Listen to the other side of the story first.

One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.

Sometimes the most important conversations are the most difficult to engage in.

The surest way to get what you need is to communicate.

Conversation succeeds conversation, Until there's nothing left to talk about Except truth, the perennial monologue, And no talker to dispute it but itself.

I'm not good at debating - I'm much better at pontificating.

You can't address yourself to women by speaking a language which no average woman will understand. In my opinion, it's wrong.