Quotes about Dialogue
One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains defensible. Iron sharpens iron.
- Francis Collins
Fascist movements kill off their critics, literally or metaphorically, while democratic movements value, invite and even welcome criticism.
- Parker Palmer
A university is supposed to be a place where all ideas are discussed.
- Jerry Falwell, Jr.
Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Semiotic nudge is more about "Speak, Lord; your servant is listening" than it is "Listen, Lord; your servant is speaking."58
- Leonard Sweet
And what is the use of a book, thought Alice, without pictures or conversation?
- Lewis Carroll
It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that, whatever you say to them, they always purr: If they would only purr for 'yes,' and mew for 'no,; or any rule of that sort, she had said, so that one could keep up a conversation! But how can you talk with a person if they always say the same thing?
- Lewis Carroll
So here's a question for you. How old did you say you were?' Alice made a short calculation, and said 'Seven years and six months.' 'Wrong!' Humpty Dumpty exclaimed triumphantly. 'You never said a word like it!' 'I though you meant How old ARE you?' Alice explained. 'If I'd meant that, I'd have said it,' said Humpty Dumpty. Alice didn't want
- Lewis Carroll
If people only talked about what they understood, Earth would be a very quiet place.
- Albert Einstein
I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.
- Dorothy Day
A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.
- Jimmy Carter
Every time I go to these racial forums, it is people who are alike, or it is progressives and liberals. So I said, 'At some point, we've got to bring the progressives and the liberals and the conservatives together.'
- Bernice King