Quotes about Dialogue
To live in communion, in genuine dialogue with others is absolutely necessary if man is to remain human. But to live in the midst of others, sharing nothing with them but the common noise and the general distraction, isolates a man in the worst way, separates him from reality in a way that is almost painless.
- Thomas Merton
A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
- George Bernard Shaw
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
- Robert Frost
Human beings want to see each other. We want to be heard by each other.
- Jacqueline Novogratz
In any interview, you do say more or less than you mean.
- John Updike
The Morgans always seemed to be having a second conversation—an unheard dialogue right next to the one they spoke aloud.
- Toni Morrison
This may sound a little bit idealistic, but when I go to my blog, my Facebook page, my Twitter account, I talk to different people from all over the world, and you see how it's easy to establish a dialogue.
- Paulo Coelho
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
- Epictetus
White people must speak out against black racism, no matter where it rears its ugly head.
- Jesse Lee Peterson
To try to preemptively shut down debate with name-calling is profoundly un-American and will harm this country.
- Eric Metaxas
The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.
- Malala Yousafzai
As for dialogue, I think it keeps things moving to cut to the chase.
- Jerry B. Jenkins