Quotes About Dialogue

You never answered back?

Bop-u-top nop-o-bop-o-dop-yop kop-nop-o-wop-sop hop-o-wop top-o sop-pop-e-a-kop 'op-talk.

I still find that a willingness to be honest—especially about things that one might be expected to conceal—often leads to much more gratifying exchanges with other human beings.

I want to confront these issues head-on. I wish other Muslims would confront them as well, and have conversations with the likes of you and Ayaan, because that's what's needed. It's how we will resolve all this.

In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

understanding can only come from a recognition of each other's history.

This is the problem with dealing with someone who is actually a good listener. They don't jump in on your sentences, saving you from actually finishing them, or talk over you, allowing what you do manage to get out to be lost or altered in transit. Instead, they wait, so you have to keep going.

Why don't you ever wait a second and see what I'm planning, or thinking, before you burst in with your opinions and ideas? You never even give me a chance.

I told you. It was interesting' [Annabel] 'Interesting,' he [Owen] said, 'is not a word.' 'Since when?

It is wrong to turn a man (a subject) into a thing (an object). By means of spiritual dialogue, the I-It relationship becomes an I-Thou relationship. God comes and goes in man's soul. And men come and go in each other's souls. Sometimes they come and go in each other's beds, too.

his instructing her

People who have good arguments use them. People who do not have good arguments try to win by labeling.

There are two types of people in the world, my young friend. One type is people-oriented. When they make conversation, it is about people—what people are doing, what someone said, how someone feels. The other group is idea-oriented. When they make conversation, they talk about ideas and concepts and objects.

Attached are pages from Balthasar's book that discuss your book.195 I've started a little dialogue with him on his criticisms of you (natural theology, God's wrath, etc.).196 I know teachers who are starting to take you seriously because Balthasar finds your ideas at least very interesting. So this criticism is beneficial when people engage with your books.

Blurbs don't work anymore!" was another. "You should make sure that the quotable lines of dialogue in your book never exceed a hundred and forty characters!" seemed at best debatable.

For only to the extent that we empathize do we have the right to speak about a matter.

Man spricht vergebens viel, um zu versagen; Der andre hört von allem nur das Nein.

No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

Wir lernen die Menschen nicht kennen, wenn sie zu uns kommen; wir müssen zu ihnen gehen, um zu erfahren, wie es mit ihnen steht.

One reason that so many people today say, "I believe in spirituality, but not in religion," is that the products of the human spirit, the various religious traditions, can so easily become warring sects if not brought within a wider, more reasoned perspective. Unitarian Universalism offers the opportunity not only to deepen one's personal spirituality through dialogue, but to do so in a context where "the guidance of reason and the results of science" are honored.

I have always endeavored to listen to chat each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion. Oftentimes my own opinion will simply represent a consensus of what I heard in the discussion" (Mandela - p 31)

There can be no truce between science and religion.

Would you care to sit down here and tell me all about it?

If you're not able to communicate successfully between yourself and yourself, how are you supposed to make it with the strangers outside?