Dialogue Quotes

• In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

  Nhat Hanh

  Change, Business, Sides

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2007). “Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.9, Penguin

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• Even when the views are contradictory, talks are the only way forward and problems should be resolved through dialogue.

  Narendra Modi

  Views, Way Forward, Problem

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.in

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The reality today is that we are all interdependent and have to co-exist on this small planet. Therefore, the only sensible and intelligent way of resolving differences and clashes of interests, whether between individuals or nations, is through dialogue.

  Dalai Lama

  Intelligent, Reality, Differences

  28 Copy quote

• Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.

  Bell Hooks

  Honesty, Insightful, Foundation

  "Fools for love" by Bell Hooks, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2000.

  38 Copy quote

  Show source

• Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

  Rollo May

  Inspirational, Life, Sympathy

  78 Copy quote

• Two monologues do not make a dialogue.

  Jeff Daly

  Communication, Two, Language

  51 Copy quote

• Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.

  Franz Werfel

  Art, Humanity, Religion

  Franz Werfel (2017). “Between Heaven and Earth”, p.215, Pickle Partners Publishing

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• A new kind of mind thus beings to come into being which is based on the development of a common meaning that is constantly transforming in the process of the dialogue.

  David Bohm

  Mind, Development, Common

  David Bohm, Lee Nichol (2004). “On Dialogue”, p.19, Psychology Press

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences will always be there. Peace means solving these differences through peaceful means; through dialogue, education, knowledge; and through humane ways.

  Dalai Lama

  Life, Education, Spiritual

  31 Copy quote

• A basic tenet of healthy democracy is open dialogue and transparency

  Peter Fenn

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Healthy

  42 Copy quote

• We have global communication and yet confrontation is more common than dialogue.

  Dalai Lama

  Communication, Common, Confrontation

  7 Copy quote

• It's interesting because you feel on the one hand, we understand people from what the say, and in another sense, you'd think that you'd be able to convey more through dialogue.

  Adrien Brody

  Thinking, Hands, People

  Roundtable interview, www.ign.com. July 30, 2004.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.

  Abdelaziz Bouteflika

  Civilization, Individual, Universal

  47 Copy quote

• Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Eye, Film Directing, People

  Francois Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock, Helen G. Scott (1985). “Hitchcock”, p.222, Simon and Schuster

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Understanding, Democracy

  Woodrow Wilson (2016). “The New Freedom: [Illustrated & Biography Added]”, p.66, eKitap Projesi

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• I can hardly believe what these 12 caricatures [about Prophet Muhammad] have caused in the world. We Danes feel like we have been placed in a scene in the wrong movie. But I don't see the fight as a clash of civilizations. Rather, we must focus on avoiding exactly this type of conflict. We have to return to dialogue, to mutual understanding and to an acknowledgement of freedom of opinion.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Believe, Fighting, Civilization

  Source: www.spiegel.de

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.

  Michael Graves

  Ideas, Long, Architecture

  8 Copy quote

• Dialogue is a necessary evil.

  Fred Zinnemann

  Writing, Evil, Necessary Evil

  46 Copy quote

• Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Views, Different, Assuming

  11 Copy quote

• We have to choose between dialogue and utter devastation.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Devastation

  6 Copy quote

• Movies without meaningful dialogue play well all over the world. The Apostle is probably the best movie of the year, but it won't do squat in Korea.

  Robert Benton

  Meaningful, Years, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  83 Copy quote

  Show source

• Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.

  Jane Goodall

  Change, Leadership, Believe

  FaceBook post by Dr. Jane Goodall from Jul 18, 2016

  75 Copy quote

  Show source

• The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.

  Robert A. M. Stern

  Dream, Talking, House

  50 Copy quote

• As for dialogue, I think it keeps things moving to cut to the chase.

  Jerry B. Jenkins

  Moving, Cutting, Thinking

  5 Copy quote

• A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Book, Reader

  12 Copy quote