Quotes about Dialogue

The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.

What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.

What do you mean—desire, data and doubt?" "Desire brings the participants together. Data set the limits of their dialogue. Doubt frames the questions.

How excellent! And if you handed one of them the complete scenario of his life, the unvarying dialogue up to his moment of death- what a hellish gift that's be. What other boredom! Every living instant he be replaying what he knew absolutely. No deviation. He could anticipate every response every utterance over and over and over and over and over and…

Prayer is not monologue but dialogue; God's voice in response to mine is its most essential part.

In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

here I was, eager for Learning and intellectual companionship—maybe even a disputation or two.

The sheer act of listening speaks volumes that even a great speech can't communicate.

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.

Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this.

I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me.

Any conversation with more than three people is typically a conversation with too many people.