John Dewey Quotes

Good dialogue is very important.

I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

'Dialogue' is not a dirty word; it's our word.

I'm really interested in how we understand each other - and whether we can understand each other.

You need to talk to people, and you need to hear what it is they have to say.

A speech belongs half to the speaker and half to the listener.

Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

In the end, you can' t talk to everyone.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

The essence of conversation is not which media format we choose to talk to each other with, so we don't differentiate between snaps and chats. It's just someone wanting to talk to you.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

It's a dialogue, not a monologue, and some people don't understand that. Social media is more like a telephone than a television.

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

It's no secret that I love to talk, but the real secret is I love to listen, too.

You see young people, or kids, and they're fascinated by the way people talk. And that's great. But eventually you get to the point where you think, 'You know what? I don't care how you talk, I'm just listening to what you're saying.'

Speech is civilization itself.

I'm not an interviewer. I have conversations.

'The Conversation' will hopefully touch on issues that will move people to want to strengthen communication and look to each other for solutions.

There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.