J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

Genuine dialogue, not rhetorical bomb-throwing, leads to progress.

Me and 50 had a conversation. We good.

Conversation succeeds conversation, Until there's nothing left to talk about Except truth, the perennial monologue, And no talker to dispute it but itself.

I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.

It's a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with.

I love having that creative discussion where, at the end of the day, you both feel better for having done it. Maybe it's a typically Jewish thing, where you sort of go at each other.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening.

Dialogue means debates and everyone's point of view.

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

The belief in the therapeutic and redemptive force of dialogue depends on the assumption … that, after all, no idea is worth fighting over to the death and that we can always reach a position of accommodation if only we will sit down and talk it out

I think it's important to have conversation about things instead of shutting things down.

I'm always for constructive conversation, meaningful conversation, not just words, but conversation.

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

How else are we going to get anywhere if we can't talk to each other?

I think that's the most important thing: that we create dialogue.

...every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.

We must understand that out of community and dialogue, the answers will arrive in their own time and way.

Communication is the universal solvent.

The one seeks a midwife to deliver his thoughts, the other, someone to assist: thus a good conversation comes into being.

Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.

Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

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

I'd like to add that negotiating is not something to be avoided or feared - it's an everyday part of life.

Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.