Conversation Quotes

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At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be… — John Donne
Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen. — Samuel Johnson
Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations.Imagine the brain, that… — Diane Ackerman
Whenever you read a book or have a conversation, the experience causes physical changes in your brain. It's a little frightening to think that every… — George Johnson
Similarly the men who produce works of genius are not those who live in the most delicate atmosphere, whose conversation is most brilliant, or their… — Marcel Proust
The only proper intoxication is conversation. — Oscar Wilde
Conversation is not a search after knowledge, but an endeavor at effect. — John Keats
Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are… — Friedrich Nietzsche
She never lets ideas interrupt the easy flow of her conversation. — Jean Webster
Argument is the worst sort of conversation. — Jonathan Swift
The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence. — Henry David Thoreau
Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed. — Oscar Wilde
Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery. — Alexander Pope
Ne speaketh not; and yet there lies a conversation in his eyes. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Women and people of color and young people especially are about to have this amazing opportunity to shift the political conversation in this country for… — Sandra Fluke
There has to be a reason and objective (to air strikes). What does it do to move the effort down the road for a political… — Chuck Hagel
Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing. — Oscar Wilde
The key to conversation at work is flexibility and understanding how what you say might be perceived by others. — Deborah Tannen
Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgment. — Isaac Watts

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