Quotes About Discussion

but then I was so utterly entranced by our discussion of Einstein's relative theory - Relativity, Ling corrected quickly under her breath. - that I completely lost track of the time. Funny, Ling whispered. What? Henry said. Lost track of... Ling shook her head, never mind.

He would point to some spot or other near the latrines. "There," he would say, pushing a bit of bread about inside his mouth, "on the sixth of February at five o'clock in the afternoon I began my memorable discussion with Professor K. on the ramifications of Leibniz's doctrine of monads in the thought of our day.

A genuinely political society, in which discussion and debate are an essential technique, is a society full of risks.

This isn't a little debate society. That's high school stuff.

A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.

Films can't change the society they can simply open the space for the discussion which can lead to social change and can start new forms of social activism.

If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society.

It must be wonderful sport to contradict each other.

The original question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.

Random quotes don't constitute an argument.

It may interest you that, a day or so ago, attempting to discuss your ideas with regard to sex and religion , my eccentric friend, fixing his eyes rather fiercely upon me, growled abruptly: Semen is God. Unwilling to excite him further, I replied: Sir, though I understand perfectly what you mean by Semen, I am unacquainted with the connotation which you attach to the term God.

She did not have strong views on politics. She did not like the confrontational nature of much political discussion; why could people not argue politely, she wondered, taking into account the views of others and accepting that people might differ with one another in perfectly good faith?

The loudly good are often not the best of people; the intuitively good, to whom it may not occur ever to discuss what they do, let alone why they do it, may be morally unsung, but are heroes nonetheless.

He's not too bad, actually. If you don't mind him going on about Byzantium, he can be quite nice.

I'm just commenting on that sort of belief. The trouble is that it might make discussion difficult. If somebody believes so strongly in one particular solution to the world's problems, then it may obscure the nuances. That's all I was saying." Elspeth paused. "They may not see that there are others who have a different view. You can love things in a whole lot of different ways, can't you?

The obscene laws that constitute apartheid are not crazed edicts issued by a dictator, nor the whims of a megalomanic monster, nor the one-man decisions of a fanatical ideologue. They are the result of polite caucus discussions by hundreds of delegates in sober suits, after full debate in party congresses. They are passed after three solemn readings in a parliament that opens every day's proceedings with a prayer to Jesus Christ. There is a special horror in that fact.

To discuss them properly, it is necessary somehow to use a language that shares some of the same properties as the phenomena under discussion. Pictures work for this language better than words, because you can see all the parts of a picture at once.

Talk for fifteen minutes a day without using I, me, my, mine.

It's good to have a manager who shares your interests, or goals. You can presumably trust a husband. I don't know if it's the best way to work. I really shouldn't discuss this.

When we define a problem as a disease, we often act as if a diagnosis were a solution: paste on a label and then end the discussion as if we've accomplished something. But then nothing ever changes.

they could discuss moving her temporarily to a VIP guest house on base.

The first rule of book club - is that nobody wants to talk about book club.

There is disagreement. The group is comfortable with this and shows no signs of having to avoid conflict or to keep everything on a plane of sweetness and light. Disagreements are not suppressed or overridden by premature group action. The reasons are carefully examined, and the group seeks to resolve them rather than to dominate the dissenter.

One of the staples of discussion about basic aesthetic principles is that art has to exist for its own self and cannot be prostituted to advance any particular cause or point of view. Perfect nonsense, of course, but that doesn't keep it from being repeated ad nauseam.