Quotes About Dialogue

We were on stage. We were supposed to speak our dialogues. But at times, a smile says more than words ever can!

There's a place between passivity and violence. I'll meet you there.

That's why I love philosophy: no one wins.

Only through communication can human life hold meaning.

Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.

Plato's Symposium shows that flirtation and philosophy can further one another.

The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.

When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.

Philosophy is everybody's business.

Thoughtful people of different political philosophies can disagree, but in a very agreeable manner.

The only philosophy is that of language, the only religion is that of the word.

Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.

The boundary between philosophy and fiction is not as clear cut as you may think and the two definitely interact.

It's no use trying to talk philosophy to our politicians. And I'm not a moral or political philosopher. I'm not interested in that.

But I don't think we shall quarrel about a word - the subject of our inquiry is too important for that.

I just want to understand how people misunderstand each other!

Our most important problem is that we can talk to express our thoughts.

An intelligent person is eager to speak, but a wise person is eager to listen.

I never speak in silence.

Talking doesn't get your point across but listening does.

The surest of stubborn silences is not to hold one's tongue but to talk

Poetry is a man arguing with himself; rhetoric is a man arguing with others.

Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.

If the book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let us freely hear both sides, if we choose.