Interpersonal Dialogue Quotes

Communication is very important. And the arts do that, whether it's film or theater.

The fact that talk may be boring or turgid or uninspiring should not cause us to forget the fact that it is preferable to war.

I have known only one way of carrying on missionary work, viz., by personal example and discussion with searchers for knowledge.

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.

I've always believed that a lot of the trouble in the world would disappear if we were talking to each other instead of about each other.

No man is so wise that he cannot benefit by talking things out with others.

I will always try to share my faith with any person who is willing to listen. When I feel a wall go up, we can talk about something else... and I will pray for you.

The agentive mind is not only active in nature, but it seeks out dialogue and discourse with other active minds. And it is through this dialogic, discursive process that we come to know the Other and his points of view, his stories. We learn an enormous amount not only about the world but about ourselves by discourse with Others.

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

There were some things Reagan liked that I liked. The main component was that people have to talk to each other and help themselves.

Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to each other for more than ten minutes at a stretch.

I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.

The most powerful force when changing people's hearts and minds is a person-to-person conversation.

We must learn to talk with each other, and we mutually must understand and accept one another in our extraordinary differences.

The most advanced minds as well as the least advanced are obliged to use the same words. If we adopt new words, it will be even more difficult - if not impossible - to make ourselves understood. The new man must therefore express himself in conventional language.

I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra deconstruction and reconstruction steps in the communication.

I'm against people reading statements. When you read statement, I automatically take it as though you can't talk, and it's not real.

if you're tired of arguing with strangers on the Internet, try talking with one of them in real life.

The great challenge facing us today is to learn once again how to talk to one another, not simply how to generate and consume information.

We yearn for frictionless, technological solutions. But people talking to people is still the way norms and standards change.

As long as we say: "Alright, it is truth for me, and I believe in it and I am ready to fight for it, but I accept that others have different beliefs - and so let me have a closer look at what they believe" - we can gain from our intercourse thanks to our difference, not despite our difference.

A continuing conversation with other persons, with cultural products, and with oneself, is a large part of what it means to be a human being, in our time and perhaps in all time.