Discourse Quotes

298 quotes by 248 authors

Her companion's discourse now sunk from its hitherto animated pitch, to nothing more than a short, decisive sentence of praise or condemnation on the face… — Jane Austen
This, then, is the truth of the discourse of universal human rights: the Wall separating those covered by the umbrella of Human Rights and those… — Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
The line-by-line, sequential, continuous form of the printed page slowly began to lose its resonance as a metaphor of how knowledge was to be acquired… — Neil Postman
A paradox: the same century invented history and photography. But history is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual discourse which abolishes… — Roland Barthes
Expose every belief to the light of reason, discourse, facts, scientific observations; question everything, be sceptical because this is the only chance at life you… — James Randi
The simple record of these three short years of active life has done more to regenerate and soften mankind than all the discourses of philosophers… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
But at a time when our discourse has become so sharply polarized - at a time when we are far too eager to lay the… — Barack Obama
It was the first and most striking characteristic of Socrates never to become heated in discourse, never to utter an injurious or insulting word --… — Epictetus
Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall. — Plutarch
Once infected, the individual [infected with a god virus] cannot detect major contradictions in his beliefs and behavior. Belief systems become self-evident to him, and… — Darrel Ray
The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth. — Salvatore Quasimodo
We will convert the entire world to Islam with our logic. We are confident that the Islamic logic, culture, and discourse can prove their superiority… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has… — Edward Said
The reduction of political discourse to sound bites is one of the worst things that's happened in American political life. — John Silber
The unconscious is the discourse of the Other. — Jacques Lacan
My curiosity, alas, is not the kind that can be satisfied by objective knowledge. Plato said that opinion is worthless and that only knowledge counts,… — Hayden Carruth
Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success; about the hollowness of failure they are silent. — Mason Cooley
The short interregnum of civil society built on the ruins of the Bastille came to its end with the establishment of the Jews as the… — Israel Shamir
Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation, but rest in presence and unity. A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who Wrote These Discourse Quotes

248 authors contributed a total of 298 Discourse Quotes, led by these top contributors: