Quotes about Dialogue

People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science.

Accustom yourself to attend closely to what is said by others, and as far as possible to penetrate into the mind of the speaker.

know what you mean, we'd say. Or, a quaint expression you sometimes hear, still, from older people: I hear where you're coming from, as if the voice itself were a traveler, arriving from a distant place. Which it would be, which it is.

I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.

Have you not learned the most in your life from those with whom you disagreed - those who saw it differently from you?

In a truly free society, people in every field would be free to express their views whether called religious or not, and the marketplace of ideas would be free to sort them out.

Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.

If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.

It's puzzling work, talking is.

Throughout my ministry, I have sought to build bridges between Jews and Christians.

Hear the other side.

Hear the other side. (Audi Partem Alteram)