Quotes about Dialogue

every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.

Human communication, it sometimes seems to me, involves an exaggerated amount of time. How briefly and to the point people always seem to speak on the stage or on the screen, while in real life we stumble from phrase to phrase with endless repetition.

If I had it to do again, I'd ask more questions and interrupt fewer answers.

Listening is more important than talking. If that were not true, God would not have given us two ears and only one mouth.

One of the greatest tragedies of our time, is this impression that has been created that science and religion have to be at war.

The role of religion is to be a challenge to philosophy, not merely an object for examination.

It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value.

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument." Good sense does not always lie with the loudest shouters, nor can we say that a large, unruly crowd is always the best arbiter of what is right.

In the Sawi universe, not only man, but all things are communicating.

How should Jesus-following Republicans and Democrats treat, speak about, and respond to one another? Publicly and privately? The way Jesus treated, spoke to, and responded to those who disagreed with him.