Romain Rolland  - Quotes

 Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it. 

Tags: dialogue   prejudice   truth     


Yann Martel  - Quotes

 So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals?' Mr. Okamoto: 'That's an interesting question?' Mr. Chiba: 'The story with animals.' Mr. Okamoto: 'Yes. The story with animals is the better story.' Pi Patel: 'Thank you. And so it goes with God. 

Tags: controversy   dialogue   faith   ideas   religion   story     
Richard Greenberg  - Quotes

 The world requires me to re-write its wretched dialogue! 

Tags: dialogue   humor   writing     


Jiddu Krishnamurti  - Quotes

 A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continue till a question is left without an answer. Thus the question is suspended between the two persons involved in this answer and question. It is like a bud with untouched blossoms . . . If the question is left totally untouched by thought, it then has its own answer because the questioner and answerer, as persons, have disappeared. This is a form of dialogue in which investigation reaches a certain point of intensity and depth, which then has a quality that thought can never reach. 

Tags: communication   dialogue   enquiry   meditation     
Edward de Bono  - Quotes

 In 80% of Socrates' dialogues there was no constructive outcome. He saw his role as simply pointing out what was  

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Elizabeth Bowen  - Quotes

 Darling, I don't want you; I've got no place for you; I only want what you give. I don't want the whole of anyone.... What you want is the whole of me-isn't it, isn't it?-and the whole of me isn't there for anybody. In that full sense you want me I don't exist. 

Tags: book   dialogue   introspective     


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