relationships and community on Conversation

Conversation is when three people are talking. Gossip is when one of them leaves.

Conversation would be much improved by the frequent use of three words: I don’t know.

We had talk enough, but no conversation.

It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man’s observation, not overturning it.

In an interview with MIT psychologist Sherry Turkle, Megan Garber asks what makes in-person conversation unique, compared to all the other ways we communicate these days: Conversations, as they tend...

If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously it is difficult to talk.

I was watching the old Dick Van Dyke Show recently, and he was at a party filled with pseudo intellectuals. Dick got trapped into a one-sided conversation with a self-absorbed philosophy professor. On...

Our bodies, created in the image of the Triune God, have much to teach us about the virtues of conversation. The human body is a wondrous symphony of diverse parts: 206 bones and over 600 muscles, con...

A book can teach you, a conversation can assure you, a poem can seduce you, a genius can inspire you, but only you can save yourself.

He has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful.

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.

With my friends, it’s either no conversation or conversation about what’s going on, on your phone.

Don’t all these little tweets, these little sips of online connection, add up to one big gulp of real conversation?

There's no greater lifestyle and no greater happiness than that of having a continual conversation with God.

If you’ve ever watched a war movie, or a film that takes place in the military, you’re likely to have encountered a specific scene, in which a subordinate will have something to tell a senior officer ...

As a college student, I was returning to school one year on a Greyhound bus. One of the other passengers was a middle-aged man who seemed to be making the rounds, engaging various people in quiet conv...

Larry King, who has made his living speaking to people as a television talk show host, believes that asking questions is the secret of good conversation. He says, "I'm curious about everythin...

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

Bernard de Fontenelle (1657–1757), was a French author and philosopher, and was once engaged in conversation with the “Sun King”,  Louis XIV.  Louis began expressing his skepticism about the existence...

There are there a few books that I come across now that I’m officially “retired” from the pastorate that I sincerely wish I had been able to read, digest and act on as a young pastor. David Brook’s la...

The exiled Niccolo Machiavelli actually changed into his best clothes to enter into his nightly reading conversation with the ancients.

In I’d Like You More If You Were More Like Me , John Ortberg uses an interesting analogy for an aspect of our relationships. In 2015, Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner announced the Starshot Initiati...

The pastor R.C. Sproul was studying in the Netherlands in the last 1960s and randomly struck up a conversation with a Dutch woman. The conversation was a common, enjoyable interaction, but when it was...

The living human community that language creates involves living human bodies. We need to talk together, speaker and hearer here, now. We know that. We feel it. We feel the absence of it. Speech conne...

Have you ever been guilty of being a “conversational topper”?  The topper is someone who, when another confides a challenge or shares an exciting event, immediately connects that event to their own li...

My guess—and I think this will be debated for a long time—is that humans are very communicative, and so the fact that you’re talking to more people with shorter bursts of communication is probably net...

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.