Discourse Quotes

298 quotes by 242 authors

Surely in much talk there cannot choose but be much vanity. Loquacity is the fistula of the mind,--ever-running and almost incurable, let every man, therefore,… — Herbert Spencer
A critical discourse that had respect for the mystery of art would look to the sense of life which finds expression in paradox, metaphor, tautology,… — Denis Donoghue
The debates are part of the unconscionable fraud that our political campaigns have become a format that defies meaningful discourse. They should be charged with… — Walter Cronkite
Every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the subject, one could… — Benjamin Franklin
Philosophy is a slow process of logic and logical discourse: A bringing B bringing C and so forth. In mysticism you can jump from A… — Elie Wiesel
The Jesuits were good educators, exceptional teachers. In an era and in a society where freedom of speech was not held in high regard, of… — Pierre Trudeau
The left is entering a new phase of ideological agitation no longer trying to win the debate but stopping debate altogether, banishing from public discourse… — Charles Krauthammer
Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and… — Izaak Walton
As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse, the Internet can only work if it's a… — Al Franken
Change of weather is the discourse of fools. — Thomas Fuller
Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty. — Mason Cooley
Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening… — Marie Corelli
I'm not shy about heated debate or passionate discourse, but when people get crazy or rude, that's a buzz kill. There's got to be a… — Mos Def
Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology. — Jacques Derrida
Civility is not not saying negative or harsh things. It is not the absence of critical analysis. It is the manner in which we are… — Richard Dreyfuss
We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in… — Paul Farmer
Getting rid of Bin Laden is good for the cause of peace worldwide but what counts is to overcome the discourse and the methods -… — Ismail Haniyeh
Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses. — Seamus Heaney
Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences… — William James
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book… — Helen Keller

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