Converses Quotes

• It is impossible for a man to love his wife whole heartedly without loving all women somewhat. I suppose that the converse must be true of women.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Wife, Impossible

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.330, Penguin

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• Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas.

  Henry Thomas Buckle

  Men, Average, Order

  "Haud Immemor: Reminiscences of Legal and Social Life in Edinburgh and London, 1850-1900". Book by Charles Stewart, p. 33, 1901.

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• Men standing in opposite hemispheres will converse and deride each other and embrace each other, and understand each other's language.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Men, Opposites, Hemisphere

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.862, Delphi Classics

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• Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect.

  George Boole

  Science, Growth, Culture

  George Boole (1872). “A Treatise on Differential Equations”, p.6

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• It is a fair adornment of a man and a great convenience both to himself and to all those with whom he converses and deals, to act uprightly, uniformly, and consistently. The practice of piety frees a man from interior distraction and from irresolution in his mind, from duplicity or inconstancy in his character, and from confusion in his proceedings, and consequently securing for others freedom from deception and disappointment in their transactions with him.

  Isaac Barrow

  Disappointment, Character, Duplicity

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• To converse at the distance of the Indes by means of sympathetic contrivances may be as natural to future times as to us is a literary correspondence.

  Joseph Glanvill

  Distance, Mean, May

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• Mothers are the only race of people that speak the same tongue. A mother in Manchuria could converse with a mother in Nebraska and never miss a word.

  Will Rogers

  Mother, Race, People

  Will Rogers (1983). “Radio broadcasts of Will Rogers”, Oklahoma State Univ Pr

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• Faith converses with the angels, and antedates the hymns of glory.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Faith, Angel, Hymns

  Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1850). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Sermons”, p.134

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• To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself.

  William Congreve

  Winning, Play, Names

  William Congreve (2014). “Love for Love”, p.21, A&C Black

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• We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they're beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved.

  Bell Hooks

  Beautiful, Thinking, Space

  "Bell Hooks talks to John Perry Barlow". www.lionsroar.com. September 1, 1995.

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• Critical thinking is to a liberal education as faith is to religion. ... the converse was true also - faith is to a liberal education as critical thinking is to religion, irrelevant and even damaging.

  Jane Smiley

  Thinking, Critical, Liberal Education

  Jane Smiley (2017). “Moo”, p.24, Pan Macmillan

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• The pleasant converse of the fireside, the simple songs of home, the words of encouragement as I bend over my school-tasks, the kiss as I lie down to rest, the patient bearing with the freaks of my restless nature, the gentle counsels mingled with reproofs and approvals, the sympathy that meets and assuages every sorrow, and sweetens every little success--all these return to me amid the responsibilities which press upon me now, and I feel as if I had once lived in heaven, and, straying, had lost my way.

  J. G. Holland

  Song, Encouragement, Lying

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 325, 1895.

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• When you are stuck in a group of people who merely trade turns at talking about themselves instead of actually conversing, it could be a matter of their not really knowing how to converse as opposed to being too small-minded or excessively Facebooked.

  Carolyn Hax

  Talking, Knowing, People

  "Carolyn Hax Live: With the usual apologies to wolves". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. February 05, 2016.

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• There is an enormous inertia that prevents people from change. You must always remember that it is impossible to make something better if you don't make it different - the converse is not true, of course. You cannot make something better unless it is different. And different scares the life out of so many people.

  Amar Bose

  People, Scare, Different

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• Many can argue - not many converse.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Inspirational, Communication, Arguing

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1872). “Concord Days”, p.75

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• To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.

  Yoshida Kenko

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Yoshida Kenko (2009). “Essays in Idleness”, p.8, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully be put into equations, because it is nonsense.

  Clifford Truesdell

  Funny, Fear, Science

  Clifford Truesdell (1966). “Six lectures on modern natural philosophy”, Springer

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• Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends. Speak to Him often of your business, your plans, your troubles, your fears - of everything that concerns you. Converse with Him confidently and frankly; for God is not wont to speak to a soul that does not speak to Him.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Soul, And Love, Doe

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• It is pleasant to spend time with Him, to lie close to His breast like the Beloved Disciple and to feel the infinite love present in His Heart....how can we not feel a renewed need to spend time in spiritual converse, in silent adoration, in heartfelt love before Christ present in the Most Holy Sacrament?

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Spiritual, Lying

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• My horses understand me tolerably well; I converse with them at least four hours every day. They are strangers to bridle or saddle; they live in great amity with me, and friendship of each other.

  Jonathan Swift

  Horse, Four, Stranger

  Jonathan Swift (1826). “Gulliver's Travels”

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• I can't count how many pairs of Converse shoes I own.

  Selena

  Shoes, Pairs, I Can

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• We are wont to see friendship solely as a phenomenon of intimacy in which the friends open their hearts to each other unmolested by the world and its demands...Thus it is hard for us to understand the political relevance of friendship...But for the Greeks the essence of friendship consisted in discourse...The converse (in contrast to the intimate talk in which individuals speak about themselves), permeated though it may be by pleasure in the friend’s presence, is concerned with the common world.

  Hannah Arendt

  Heart, Essence, Political

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• I could never muster the courage to speak to girls in my college in Pune. Most of them were Parsis and spoke English. I came from a village and could barely converse in English.

  Sharad Pawar

  Girl, College, Village

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• If (O.J. Simpson) is acquitted, I will renounce my citizenship. And if I converse with him at a cocktail party, I will say, 'Well, there are so many people here who haven't murdered anyone. I think I'll go talk to them.' I'll also riot.

  Dick Cavett

  Party, Thinking, People

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• For converse among men, beautiful persons have less need of the mind's commending qualities. Beauty in itself is such a silent orator, that it is ever pleading for respect and liking, and by the eyes of others is ever sending, to their hearts for love.

  Owen Feltham

  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

  Owen Feltham (1840). “Resolves: divine, moral and political”, p.89

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