Quotes About Dialogue

This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.

No more rhymes now I mean it!" "Anybody want a peanut?" "AAHH!

The capacity for talking together constituted the foundation for democracy, far more fundamental than voting. As one ancient Greek philosopher noted, "When voting started, democracy ended.

Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feeling that communication is breaking down everywhere, on an unparalleled scale.

Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error.

There are two conversations going on at the same time: the story and a conversation about how the story is being told.

After reading four pages of continuous ten-year-old dialogue magically recalled by someone who was in the throes of alcohol withdrawal at the time, I wondered how he did it. No I didn't. I knew he made it up. It was easy and defendable, really, sublimating and eliding the past in service of a larger Emotional Truth.

Too often people tend to think about what they'll say next when someone else is speaking. I developed a practice of listening all the way through and waiting three seconds to respond—it's amazing how that small change allows you to really hear what someone is saying . . . or not saying.

There is little scientific data on the point, but evidently people do speak to themselves.

There's a whisper of revolution whenever people really speak to one another and really listen.

Listen for an hour, speak for a minute

While letters can embody ongoing conversations, social media is primarily made up of comments—and those are two very different things.

Ich finde, die Suche nach einem Geprächsthema ist ein gutes Gesprächsthema.»

think one of the big lessons is that we should do more talking and less fighting.

Whenever you discuss politics, it is always better to use individual names rather then the term neocon.

The purpose of debates is to explore issues, not end them.

We speak of God because he first spoke to us.

Buber, M. (1990) The Way of Man.

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

Truth, springs from agrument amongst friends.

The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.

K' is for communications.

What is essential here is the presence of the spirit of dialogue, which is in short, the ability to hold many points of view in suspension, along with a primary interest in the creation of common meaning.

A key difference between a dialogue and an ordinary discussion is that, within the latter people usually hold relatively fixed positions and argue in favor of their views as they try to convince others to change. At best this may produce agreement or compromise, but it does not give rise to anything creative.