Conversation Quotes

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Pay attention to the gap - the gap between two thoughts, the brief, silent space between words in a conversation, between the notes of a… — Eckhart Tolle
Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit. — William Temple
Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about. — Agnes Repplier
As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral. — Jane Smiley
I love my husband, but it is nothing like a conversation with a woman that understands you. I grow so much from those conversations. — Beyonce Knowles
Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don't just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape them, draw… — Theodore Zeldin
When two minds of a high order, interested in kindred subjects, come together, their conversation is chiefly remarkable for the summariness of its allusions and… — William James
I have often had cause to feel that my hands are cleverer than my head. That is a crude way of characterizing the dialectics of… — George Wald
Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading. — Jonathan Swift
Debate is the death of conversation. — Emil Ludwig
A man of no conversation should smoke. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative,… — William Makepeace Thackeray
People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were. — Edward R. Murrow
Long conversations with pals when neither you nor they have had a drink can be a test of palship. — P.J. O'Rourke
A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we… — Samuel Johnson
If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously it is difficult to talk. — Wendell Berry
I am annoyed by individuals who are embarrassed by pauses in a conversation. To me, every conversational pause refreshes. — George Saunders
There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all. — Rebecca West

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