Communication Quote by Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Download Open image “I detest war; it ruins conversation” — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Communication Conversation Detest Inspirational Political Ruins War
War's stupid. Nobody wins. You might as well talk first; you have to talk last anyway. — Henry Allingham Copy Share Image
The fact that the talk may be boring or turgid or uninspiring should not cause us to forget the fact that it is preferable… — Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr Copy Share Image
I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so. — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses... — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
“War is not a polite recreation, but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to realize this and not make a game of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
War stinks! There's nothing good about it. But you know the whole thing, it's you or them. — Michael E. Thornton Copy Share Image
One of the many, many things I hate about war is how it trivializes the personal. The big themes, the broad sweep, the emergency… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I learned firsthand that there would simply be no wars if people engaged in real conversation. — Mark Burnett Copy Share Image
“War is unlike life. It's a denial of everything you learn life is. And that's why when you get finished with it, you see… — Robert Graff Copy Share Image
When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it. — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist. — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing at all.… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
Truth comes home to the mind so naturally, that when we learn it for the first time, it seems as though we did no… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise. — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future. — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
Ah! si l'on o" tait les chime' res aux hommes, quel plaisir leur resterait? Oh! If man were robbed of his fantasies, what pleasure… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property. — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place. — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
Let us be well assured of the Matter of Fact, before we trouble our selves with enquiring into the Cause. It is true, that… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean… — John Searle Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“To engage in dialogue is to serve others via whatever is real inside you; to engage in debate is to ultimately serve the illusions… — Oli Anderson Copy Share Image
What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
In dialogue, there is opposition, yes, but no head-on collision. Smashing heads does not open minds. — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continue till a question is left without an… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I get afraid of the dark if I'm in a great deal of dark, and I have to move around inside of that fear...… — Emil Ferris Copy Share Image
I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and… — Helen Reddy Copy Share Image
Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
