Discourse Quotes

298 Discourse quotes by 242 unique authors

The Journal of Discourses ranks as one of the standard works of the Church, and every right-minded Saint will certainly welcome with joy every Number… — George Q. Cannon
Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention. — Joyce Appleby
Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements. — Kenneth Lee Pike
I heard many discourses which were good for the soul, but I could not discover in the case of any one of the teachers that… — Saint Basil
In discourse more sweet; For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense. Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd… — John Milton
Delivers in such apt and gracious words that aged ears play truant at his tales; And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble… — William Shakespeare
For the Amahuaca, the Koyukon, the Apache, and the diverse Aboriginal peoples of Australia - as for numerous other indigenous peoples - the coherence of… — David Abram
In the absence of any written analogue to speech, the sensible, natural environment remains the primary visual counterpart of spoken utterance, the palpable site, or… — David Abram
Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety… — Henry David Thoreau
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome — Ben Jonson
Set a page in Fournier against another in Caslon and another in Plantin and it is as if you heard three different people delivering the… — Beatrice Warde
Unlike the past decades, the present moment is lacking in architectural discourse. — Lebbeus Woods
It is dangerous to engage in even the most innocuous-seeming discourse with the FBI/ Homeland Security/ a local detective. — Ingrid Newkirk
It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the… — David Whyte
As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse. — Jim Lehrer
I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody. — Jim Lehrer
Not in books only, nor yet in oral discourse, but often also in words there are boundless stores of moral and historic truth, and no… — Richard Whately
Charles Bernstein's pairs of jingles of 'public discourse' are 'simultaneous double narrative / the space between's the other narrative/as if they're opposite.' In the space… — Unknown Author
Indeed, theological discourse offers its strange jubilation only to the strict extent that it permits and, dangerously, demands of it wokman that he speak beyond… — Unknown Author
But once you publish a book, doesnâ€™t it by definition become the realm of public discourse? Otherwise, wouldnâ€™t we just write books and print them… — Jonathan Evison

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