Communication Quote by Scilla Elworthy

Dialogue is the ideal means of showing what is between the characters. It crystallizes relationships. It should, ideally, be so effective as to make…

— Elizabeth Bowen

Real dialogue is where two or more people become willing to suspend their certainty in each other's presence.

— David Bohm

A dialogue leads to connection, which leads to trust which leads to engagement

— Seth Godin

We have global communication and yet confrontation is more common than dialogue.

— Dalai Lama

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

— Truman Capote

“...Dialogue is an activity that represents a state of relations going well beyond tolerance...You can coexist with people without ever having to speak meaningfully…

— Gustav Niebuhr

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

— Rebecca West

In what we think of as bad dialogue, the characters talk directly to each other.

— Diane Johnson

Conversation is the fine art of mutual consideration and communication about matters of common interest that basically have some human importance.

— Ordway Tead

Dialogue should show the relationships among people.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Dialogue is a space where we may see the assumptions which lay beneath the surface of our thoughts, assumptions which drive us, assumptions around…

— David Bohm

Dialogue is the fundamental unfolding of a gift of oneself to another.

— Pope Benedict XVI