Converse Quotes
158 quotes by 143 authors
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Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community - the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
— Timothy Keller
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Never open your story with a character thinking, I advise my students. As a further precaution, don’t put a character in a room alone –…
— Les Standiford
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It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers… They would be able…
— Alan Turing
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A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.
— John Stuart Blackie
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To-despise the world is the way to enjoy heaven; and blessed are they who delight to converse with God by prayer.
— John Bunyan
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To converse at the distance of the Indes by means of sympathetic contrivances may be as natural to future times as to us is a…
— Joseph Glanvill
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The advantages of philosophy? That I am able to hold converse with myself.
— Antisthenes
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All I feel are the assaults of apprehension and terror at the thought that I am the only one who is entirely unlike the rest.…
— Osamu Dazai
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Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about…
— Henry Thomas Buckle
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Don't just read it; fight it! Ask your own questions, look for your own examples, discover your own proofs. Is the hypothesis necessary? Is the…
— Paul Halmos
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Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.
— Samuel Johnson
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The answer to our prayer of how to meet our children’s needs may be to more often technologically disconnect. Precious moments of opportunity to interact…
— Rosemary M. Wixom
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Only when people learn to converse will they begin to be equal.
— Theodore Zeldin
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Most of the methods of training the conscious side of the writer-the craftsman and the critic in him- are actually hostile to the good of…
— Dorothea Brande
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A triune God would call us to converse with him . . . because he wants to share the joy he has. Prayer is our…
— Timothy Keller
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Each thing organizes the space around it, rebuffing or sidling up against other things; each thing calls, gestures, beckons to other beings or battles them…
— David Abram
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My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes.
— Robert Andrews Millikan
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Gratitude is the praise we offer God: for teachers kind, benefactors never to be forgotten, for all who have advantaged me, by writings, sermons, converse,…
— Lancelot Andrewes
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Be neat, Philothea; let nothing be negligent about you. It is a kind of contempt of those with whom we converse, to frequent their company…
— Saint Francis de Sales
Who Wrote These Converse Quotes
143 authors contributed a total of 158 Converse Quotes, led by these top contributors: