Quotes About Dialogue

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.

Conversation means being able to disagree and still continue the discussion

The real ecumenical crisis today is not between Catholics and Protestants but between traditional and experimental forms of church life.

Life is more fun when you open your mouth.

There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.

Of all the life skills available to us, communication is perhaps the most empowering.

To understand and be understood, those are among life's greatest gifts, and every interaction is an opportunity to exchange them

Words have a life; without response they die.

To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.

An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.

Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.

There is giant untapped potential in disagreement, especially if the disagreement is between two or more thoughtful people

Every President that went to China, I would meet them and have dinner and talk about the past and the future. That was in the '70s.

The reverse should be preceded by a short nurturing statement, because you don't want to sound like a district attorney during cross-examination.

I want to talk. I talk to everybody, and it pisses me off when they interpret to talk back. I sometimes think of offering money to friends to buy their turn in a conversation.

Dialogue, discussion, and participatory decision making are all part of building self-discipline.

There's nothing worse than two people who have on the same position talking to each other about the position.

A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.

D)ialogue is generally the worst choice for exposition. 'When you're writing lines...you need to focus on the way people actually talk. And when we talk to each other we never actually explain our terms. We don't say 'Sweetheart, would you pass me the sugar bowl, which we picked up for a song at that antique stall in Munich.

You know what I'd love to read? A Dialogue between Bron and Shevek and Socrates. Socrates would love it too. I bet he wanted people who argued. You can tell he did, you can tell that's what he loved really, at least in The Symposium.

What made him imagine he could have a dialogue with them?" "He's Sokrates," I said. "He's like a two-year-old sticking pencils in his ear," she said.

The Republic isn't as much fun as The Symposium. It's all long speeches, and nobody bursting in drunk to woo Socrates in the middle.

Amaro likes words. . . . I think he enjoys their taste.

Humility does not necessarily require me to agree and comply with everyone else's position, but it does demand that I be willing to understand and respect the many sides of every issue.