Discourse Quotes · Page 6

...But why discourse Upon the Virtues of the Horse? They are too numerous to tell Save when you have a Horse to…

— Josh Billings

The fund of sensible discourse is limited; that of jest and badinerie is infinite.

— William Shenstone

I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens.

— Mark Kingwell

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

— Anonymous

Love with delight discourses in my mindUpon my lady's admirable gifts...Beyond the range of human intellect.

— Dante Alighieri

The public discourse online is not done through the polite language of debate.

— Hozier

There is not one but many silences, and they are an integral part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourses.

— Michel Foucault

You have to learn to have discourse with people you don't necessarily agree with.

— Charlamagne tha God

It's our tendency to approach every problem as if it were a fight between two sides. We see it in headlines that…

— Deborah Tannen

I'd like to see much more understanding of emotional issues around hurt, abandonment, disappointment, longing, failure and shame, where they stem from…

— Susie Orbach

Political discourse has been reduced to "Where's the beef?" "Read my lips," and "Make my day." Where are the assassins when we…

— George Carlin

Neoliberalism considers the discourse of equality, justice, and democracy quaint, if not dangerous and must be either trivialized, turned into its Orwellian…

— Henry Giroux

Allow me to introduce myself. I am a traitor and an idiot. Also, my mother should have aborted me and left me…

— Kathleen Parker

A critical discourse that had respect for the mystery of art would look to the sense of life which finds expression in…

— Denis Donoghue

“Whether the vessel is a legal document or a rap song, language is often chosen ot exclude. To use a scholarly phrase,…

— Roy Peter Clark

A truly great university is a nucleus of artistic expression. It fosters creative, critical thought, and serves as a platform for civil…

— Gordon Gee

When we put our trust in diplomacy, it is not because it is an inspiring or uplifting discourse or because it helps…

— Noah Feldman

Over the course of my career, I have come to accept that some of my more provocative work courts controversy, and as…

— Terry Richardson

To turn Karl [Popper]'s view on its head, it is precisely the abandonment of critical discourse that marks the transition of science.…

— Thomas Kuhn

I hope progressive ways of thinking will permeate the "mainstream" more and more in the coming years. Goddess knows we have endured…

— Ani DiFranco

The real achievement in discoveries ... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before. .. The essence of discovery is…

— Arthur Koestler

If you listen to the political discourse in America today, you would think that all our problems have been caused by the…

— Fareed Zakaria

Indeed, theological discourse offers its strange jubilation only to the strict extent that it permits and, dangerously, demands of it wokman that…

— Jean-Luc Marion

There can be no religious discourse which is in conflict with its environment and with the world and therefore, we Muslims need…

— Abdel Fattah el-Sisi

Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises

— Dennis Potter

It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse.

— Richard Steele

What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of "true scientific discourse." It isn't.

— Jimmy Wales

Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success; about the hollowness of failure they are silent.

— Mason Cooley

That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty.

— William Shakespeare

You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.

— Larry Wall

All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome

— Ben Jonson

In poetry, even discourse about doubts must be cast in a discourse that cannot be doubted.

— Mikhail Bakhtin

The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one.

— Juvenal

The grandest discourse ever delivered is an ostentatious failure if the doctrine of the grace of God be absent from it.

— Charles Spurgeon

Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?

— Theodore Roosevelt

The Olivet Discourse is not about the Second Coming of Christ. It is a prophecy of the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D.…

— David Chilton

“Our public discourse appears permanently riven by conspiracy theories.”

— Sam Harris

“The beautiful is powerless but always exceeds what frames it, and what always frames it is discourse.”

— Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe

I grew up in the sort of cultural milieu that always regarded conversations about the political discourse as tremendously low-brow.

— Joseph Brodsky

Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum.

— Rowan Williams