Dialogue Quotes

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Dialogue is a non-confrontational communication, where both partners are willing to learn from the other and therefore leads much farther into finding new grounds together -- Scilla Elworthy

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.”
-- Epictetus

Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.
-- Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself.
-- Joseph Farrell

If there is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to put yourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view – as well as your own.
-- Henry Ford

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. -- Benjamin Franklin

The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. People can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words are pursuing them. Even the choices words lose their power when they are used to overpower. Attitudes are the real figures of speech.
-- Edwin H. Friedman

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
-- Andre Gide

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much.
-- Robert Greeleaf

Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.
-- Thomas C. Haliburton

There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions.
-- Ernest Hello

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway

* Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. -- Jimi Hendrix

"Without mutual knowledge there can be no mutual understanding; without understanding, there can be no trust and respect; without trust, there can be no peace, only the danger of conflict. This means we have to be willing and able to familiarize ourselves with the way people of other cultures think and perceive the world around them, but without losing our own standpoint in the process."
-- Roman Herzog, President of Germany

There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions.
-- Ernest Hello

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered ;about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals. -- Robert Maynard Hutchins

 

Dialogue Quotes

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