Exchange of Ideas Quotes

Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all.

I think the museum should be an arena in which ideals can hash it out, fight it out, tooth and nail, for attention.

I don't particularly enjoy those types of interviews, because I have a great respect for Senator McCain, and I hate the idea that our conversation became just two people sort of talking over each other, at one point.

Conversation is a really good way to get things done.

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.

WeWork has always believed that we are better together, and a large part of that is learning from others through meaningful connections and experiences.

Israel's doors are open to collaboration with Bulgaria.

A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify.

Television is, in many respects, a passive medium: people receive information without really exchanging ideas with others. By contrast, the Internet can be an active medium, allowing individuals to use e-mail, discussion groups, and even Web sites to engage with one another.

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

In the sports world it's all about argument. It's all about having a hot take. The other person has to have the polar opposite opinion, and you bash them together. To me it is an outlier to have a conversation be the basis of why you are listening.

I live between Europe, America and Asia.

Dialogue means debates and everyone's point of view.

Many can argue - not many converse.

Yet friendship, I believe, is essential to intellectuals. It is probably the growth hormone the mind requires as it begins its activity of producing and exchanging ideas. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk. In the course of my history, not love or marriage so much as friendship has promoted growth.

Art is a dialogue. I'm throwing rocks across a chasm and hoping people catch them on the other side.

I don't want to argue with you Mr. Speaker. I'm just trying to give you my thoughts.

We change people through conversation, not through censorship.

Me and 50 had a conversation. We good.

An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say 'Gentlemen' to the person with whom he is conversing.

In life, people talk at right angles. One asks a question, and the other replies in part, then uses that part to move the conversation to something else. Everyone has an agenda, has something they're trying to say - or not say.

We were just looking at ideas of each other.

When someone asks you, A penny for your thoughts, and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny?

I don't know much, but I like talking to people who know a lot more than I do.