Quotes About Dialogue

firstly, prayer is a conversation between God and the soul, and secondly, a particular language is spoken: God's language. Prayer is dialogue, not man's monologue before God.

What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.

We cannot understand without wanting to understand, that is, without wanting to let something be said...Understanding does not occur when we try to intercept what someone wants to say to us by claiming we already know it.

Horace Greeley's conversation inevitably becomes a speech.

Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.

experience of our self and the other person becomes fixed and small. My goal is to challenge us to engage in novel conversations that will create a larger, more empowering view of who we are and what is truly possible.

Surely human consciousness would take a big leap forward if our wish to hear and understand were as great as our wish to be heard and understood.

I think it's important to travel around in order to get a notion of what's going on, to find out what people are think about. I enjoy talking on campuses most because people are more informed and discussion is generally livelier.

You're arguing in a circle," I said. "In a spiral," said Lamiel, "which is the best way to argue.

silencing doesn't resolve anything; rather than erase differences

How time files when you's doin' all the talking.

When people ask me what makes movies great, it's the material.

He said nothing. Very sarcastically.

Communication is not the preserve of humans; it is the one thing that is truly universal.

Sex is just another form of talk, where you act the words instead of saying them.

Tuning in does not mean questioning our children about every little detail of their lives. Instead, tell an interesting story from your day; they might respond with a story of their own.

We participate in a perpetual organic conversation with our universe.

A defesa de idéias, a argumentação e a crítica melhoram a democracia.

Correction of Earlier Entry: 8/01/12 We read over the shoulders of giants; books place us in dialogue not just with an author but with other readers.

Taal heeft te maken met de diepe natuur van de mens, de mens die is geschapen naar het beeld van God. God en de mens zijn geschapen tot gesprek

Quantum theory can be described as a new kind of language to be used in a dialogue between us and the systems we study with our instruments. This quantum language contains verbs that refer to our preparations and measurements and nouns that refer to what is then seen. It tells us nothing about what the world would be like in our absence.

grow more by listening than talking.

silence. Finally, he said, "So you and

Arguing with somebody is never pleasant, but sometimes it is useful and necessary to do so.