Quotes About Dialogue

Talking is always a good idea. There's no harm in keeping lines of communication open.

If we are to succeed we must communicate.

It is both theoretically mistaken and morally wrong to regard others as objects of investigation rather than partners in free rational communication.

Anyone in a position to overcome barriers to free thought and communication should do so.

it's important to make sure that we're talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.

The altitude of any relation is possible through discourse.

Why am I arguing with a computer?

Part of doing Linux was that I had to communicate a lot more instead of just being a geek in front of a computer.

It amazes me that filmmakers will still film, and audiences will still watch, relationships so bankrupt of human feeling that the characters could be reading dialogue written by a computer.

Although computers allow people to talk at the speed of light, no one talks that fast.

Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought and not as many of those who worry about their shortcomings believe an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.

The courage to speak must be matched by the wisdom to listen.

I once dated a weather girl, we talked up a storm.

The poem is at last between two persons instead of two pages. In all modesty, I confess that it may be the death of literature as we know it.

The West is boring itself to death! And talking itself to death!

I am broadly concerned about the slow death of free speech, but particularly in universities and also with regards to the climate change debate.

Democracy requires us to recognize others' rights even when we fundamentally disagree with them. It requires a civility in which I respect a person's ultimate worth and seek to persuade but not to coerce.

It makes a huge difference whether I treat a nonbeliever as someone who is wrong rather than as someone who is on the way but lost.

Al Hickey: It's not about anything. Frank Boggs: Yeah, it's about four hundred grand

O que de pior acontece a qualquer pessoa é tornar-se inimigo da palavra

And Agathon said, It is probable, Socrates, that I knew nothing of what I had said. And yet spoke you beautifully, Agathon, he said.

The comprehensive mind is always dialectical.

I really do not know, Socrates, how to express what I mean. For somehow or other our arguments, on whatever ground we rest them, seem to turn round and walk away from us.

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