Quotes About Discussion

Many argue; not many converse.

Fame is a very good thing to have in the house, but cash is more convenient, so I wish to take the sense of the meeting on this important subject, said Jo, calling a family council.

A laconic man, he liked to canvass everyone's opinion before expressing his own and then often crafted a compromise to maintain cohesion.

A rebuke to Cong. "How could it be otherwise in a body to which the people send 150 lawyers whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing & talk by the hour.

At any rate, it was boring to be in ill-health, doubly boring to talk about it.

She always answered the questions in a vague fashion, partly because she didn't want to discuss the matter, and partly because she didn't know exactly how she did feel. Only that she had known, always, that life would be like this, because this was how it was for every British India family, and the children absorbed and accepted the fact that, from an early age, long separations and partings would, eventually, be inevitable.

Barbarians are all alike... sit up half the night to discuss anything a Roman says.

One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. If a man is keen on reading, I think he ought to open his mind to some older man who knows him and his life, and to take his advice in the matter, and above all, to discuss with him the first books that interest him.

Subjects under discussion droned about me swooped and twittered like birds of passage and birds of prey.

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

La misión del poeta es nombrar lo innombrable, denunciar el engaño, tomar partido, iniciar discusiones, dar forma al mundo e impedir que se duerma.»

The Pages of Gup, now that they had talked through everything so fully, fought hard, remained united, support each other when required to do so, and in general looked like a force with a common purpose. All those arguments and debates, all that openness, had created powerful bonds of friendship between them.

Ideas matter—and philosophy is the art of thinking about them rigorously. In my view, that should be done in as public a forum as possible.

I think it would be extremely helpful if people focused on the ideas being discussed here, rather than on calling you names—which is an easy way to ignore your ideas.

religion is the one area of our discourse

Really, you should always discuss the defeats because you can learn much more from failure than from success.

Nothing inspires a man like a solid argument

To meddle in the government of society and to speak about it is the greatest business and, so to speak, the only pleasure that an American knows.

Child abuse in all its forms has always been with us and it is still widespread today. But only recently have the victims started realizing what has been done to them and talking to other people about it. Subjects rarely touched on before are moving into the foreground of discussion, a discussion which opens up new perspectives of greater fulfillment in life for very many people.

the fantasy, power, songfulness, beauty, and humor of the music itself has been not so much overlooked as rendered secondary to the discussion of it by experts. Instead of his reputation's creating curiosity about his work, his work has been buried by (and beneath) his reputation.

Prolixity is not alien to us in India. We are able to talk at some length.

ARGUE, v.t. To tentatively consider with the tongue.

I was too old-fashioned male-chauv to allow that; we discussed for a minute and I wound up with the couch

When I get excited about a movie I need to talk.