Cutting Quote by Saint Francis de Sales

No Discourse whatsoever, can End in absolute Knowledge of Fact.

— Thomas Hobbes

Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

The unsaid part is the best of every discourse.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Rhetoric completes the tools of learning. Dialectic zeros in on the logic of things, of particular systems of thought or subjects. Rhetoric takes the…

— William Blake

A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful.

— Plato

A common rhetorical strategy of politicians and others is to frame their opponents' views in the worst possible light, tacitly suggesting that all versions…

— Dale Jamieson

For the individual, as I can testify, a brief grounding in semantics, besides making philosophy unreadable, makes unreadable most political speeches, classical economic theory,…

— Stuart Chase

There comes a time when what is needed is not just rhetoric, but boots on the ground.

— Baldwin Spencer

Civilized discourse demands critical thinking, self-reflexiveness, sober-headed analysis.

— Daniel Lubetzky

The most powerful purpose statements are crystal clear and single-minded in their focus.

— Roy Spence

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing…

— Aristotle