Quotes about Dialogue

We can be civil. We can still be friends, and be Democrats and Republicans, and have different views.

I find that men as high as trees will write, dialogue-wise yet no man doth them slight. For writing so: Indeed if they abuse, truth, cursed be they, and the craft they use. To that intent; but yet let truth be free, to make her salleys upon Thee, and Me. Which way it pleases God: For who knows how, Better than he that taught us first to Plough. To guide our Mind and Pens for his Design? And he makes base things usher in Divine.

The highest compliment you can give someone is to ask them their opinion.

But people of influence understand the incredible value of becoming a good listener. For example, when Lyndon B. Johnson was a junior senator from Texas, he kept a sign on his office wall that read, "You ain't learnin' nothin' when you're doin' all the talkin'." And Woodrow Wilson, the twenty-eighth American president, once said, "The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Come now, let us reason together.

Barriers shut down communication.

Shouting is obvious; not talking to each other slips by.

LISTEN twice as much as you speak.

Also, one of the simplest paths to deep change is for the less powerful to speak as much as they listen, and for the more powerful to listen as much as they speak.

When people say to me, 'What should I tell my daughter?' I always say: The most important thing is to listen. This is how she learns she has something to say.

Writing is a conversation with reading; a dialogue with thinking.