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Quotations
 | Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people. — Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, Wife of the 32nd USA president 10 likes |
 | The reason that there are so few good conversationalists is that most people are thinking about what they are going to say and not about what the others are saying. — La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680, French writer 4 likes |
 | To be able to make a conversation, you must know many useless things. — Jules Renard, 1864-1910, French writer 4 likes |
 | The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. — René Descartes, 1596-1650, French philosopher 4 likes |
 | Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in a mixed company. — Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773, English statesman & writer 3 likes |
| One must listen if one wishes to be listened to. — La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680, French writer 3 likes |
 | Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 2 likes |
| I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 2 likes |
 | It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much. — Yogi Berra, 1925-2015, American baseball player & humorist 2 likes |
 | One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention. — Jim Rohn, 1930-2009, American self-help speker 2 likes |
 | The universe must be full of voices, calling from star to star in a myriad tongues. One day we shall join that cosmic conversation. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 2 likes |
 | A man tells you the most interesting things he knows during the first half hour he talks to you; after that, he either repeats himself or offers you variations of the same theme. — Pitigrilli (Dino Segre), 1893-1975, Italian writer 2 likes |
 | We find comfort among those who agree with us – growth among those who don’t. — Frank A. Clark, 1911-1991, American cartoonist 2 likes |
 | I would love to meet a philosopher like Nietzsche on a train or boat and to talk with him all night. Incidentally, I don’t consider his philosophy long-lived. It is not so much persuasive as full of bravura. — Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Russian writer 2 likes |
 | The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress. |
 | When considering marriage one should ask oneself this question; “will I be able to talk with this person into old age?” Everything else is transitory, the most time is spent in conversation. |
 | A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring. |
| You want to talk to someone; first open your ears. |
 | The techniques of opening conversation are universal. I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention, help, and conversation is to be lost. |
 | The true spirit of conversation consists more in bringing out the cleverness of others than in showing a great deal of it yourself. |
 | The best kind of conversation is that which may be called thinking aloud. |
| The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard. |
| Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. |
 | A play is a conversation. |
 | Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in. |
 | If you want to be a good conversationalist, be a good listener. To be interesting, be interested. |
 | In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge. |
 | Conversation is a human invention intended to prevent man from thinking. It's also a surefire way to find out what he's trying to hide. |
Funny Quotes
 | Talking with you is the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience. — Bill Watterson, 1958-, American cartoonist 3 likes |
 | During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk. — Fred Allen, 1894-1956, American comedian 3 likes |
 | Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation. |
Ancient Greek
 | The dialogue within the soul with itself... was named “thinking”. Ο εντός της ψυχής προς αυτήν διάλογος… επωνομάσθη διάνοια. — Plato, 427-347 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 11 likes |
 | You may have the power to slander, but I have the power not to listen to you. Του μεν κακώς λέγειν συ την εξουσίαν έχεις, του δε μη ακούειν εγώ. — Aristippus, 435-355 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher (refusing to continue a debate) 5 likes |
Proverbs
 | When a wise man talks to a fool, two fools are talking. 9 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other. — from the film Breathless (1960) 6 likes |
 | I can never have a real conversation with you. You never have ideas, only feelings. That's not true. There are ideas in feelings. — from the film Pierrot le Fou (1965) 4 likes |
