People in this world of superficial communication find themselves isolated and lonely and have difficult in talking about personal things that really… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
When two people talk with mutual respect and listen with a real interest in understanding another point of view, when they try… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
Everything I am going to say to you is the child of a conversation. [...] That is the aspect of conversation that… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
Change the way you think, and you are already halfway to changing the world. — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
The main purpose of engaging in conversation can no longer be personal advancement or respectability. Instead, I'd like for us to use… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
No history of the world can be complete which does not mention Mary Helen Keller... whose overcoming of her blindness and deafness… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
Gastronomy has done more to bring together people of the world than any guns ever could. — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
The Renaissance… was based on a new idea of the importance of the individual. But this was a fragile foundation, because individuals… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
The world is... often terrifying, disgusting and tragic, but it is also beautiful. I should like to know how exactly each person… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
To be a catalyst is the ambition most appropriate for those who see the world as being in constant change, and who,… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
Change the way you think, and you are halfway to changing the world. — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
One of the great ambitions is to discover the diversity of the world, to discover who inhabits the world. — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
What we make of people, and what we see in the mirror when we look at ourselves, depends on what we know… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
People in this world of superficial communication find themselves isolated and lonely and have difficult in talking about personal things that really matter to… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone. — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
We should abolish 'work.' By that I mean abolishing the distinction between work and leisure, one of the greatest mistakes of the last century,… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
When two people talk with mutual respect and listen with a real interest in understanding another point of view, when they try to put… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
Everything I am going to say to you is the child of a conversation. [...] That is the aspect of conversation that particularly excites… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
In every life there is an element of victory over fear, which needs to be searched for, though it may be a false victory. — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
What does it mean to dance? What does it mean to commit a crime? What does it mean to be anxious? What does it… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
The tendency of experts is to fiddle around with their expertise rather than trying to find new solutions. — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
The British have turned their sense of humour into a national virtue. It is odd, because through much of history, humour has been considered… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
Change the way you think, and you are already halfway to changing the world. — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
We think of speaking as something we do naturally, without any effort. But like playing music, it requires attention and knowledge and practice. — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image