Quotes About Dialogue

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We unlearn the art of speaking well when we cease to speak with God.

For me a page of good prose is where one hears the rain. A page of good prose is when one hears the noise of battle.... A page of good prose seems to me the most serious dialogue that well-informed and intelligent men and women carry on today in their endeavor to make sure that the fires of this planet burn peaceably.

How do you explain to someone who thinks you're the devil incarnate, that you're really not?

Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.

There's all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.

News channels have always had interview shows, but we need different kinds of interviews with different kinds of interviewers, interviewers who bring different life experiences to the table.

In the Bhagavad-Gita, a dialogue ensues in the middle of a battlefield, symbolizing the battlefield of life which we are fighting through our illusions.

I hate it when, after I let a white person know they've said something racist, I end up having to listen for hours to their life.

Not only is social life identical with communication, but all communication (and hence all genuine social life) is educative.

I've never gone into an interview in my life and said that we can't talk about something.

All life is profoundly dependent on communication.

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.

Would the humanities care to colonize the sciences?

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.

People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.

The best way to contradict him is to let him talk

Defeating with dialogue is the certification of wisdom and insight.

Dialogues between two sides can be more constructive and resultful than the third party that has only its interests in its agenda

Bollie was a sort of chain-talker, lighting one end of a conversation to another without letting the first go out.

Couples in the better relationships understand the perpetual problems differently; they dialogue about them rather than fighting over them.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

Too much agreement kills the chat.

Too much agreement kills chat.