#versa

Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds. ↗

— Ved Mehta

#art

Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life. ↗

— Akhenaton

#give #guide #hear #heart #heed

Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

#debate #feminine #masculine

A reversal is just anything that's a surprise. It's a way of keeping the audience interested. ↗

— Tony Gilroy

#audience #interested #just #keeping #reversal

I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#education #historian #i #learned #lifetime

I've never been to the websites. It's a lot healthier for me to keep out of the conversations about me. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#been #conversations #healthier #i #keep

He actually came up to me and we started speaking. And from that conversation we were able to come to a meeting of the minds and it seemed as if it was clear to me that he wanted to do similar things to what I wanted to do. ↗

— Maurice Ashley

#actually #came #clear #come #conversation

I've found that if I say what I'm really thinking and feeling, people are more likely to say what they really think and feel. The conversation becomes a real conversation. ↗

— Carol Gilligan

#conversation #feel #feeling #found #i

Well, it's not a pleasant experience. And it's a terribly political process, because that thing was initiated by the Congress and by, you know, our adversaries in the Congress. ↗

— Bruce Babbitt

#because #congress #experience #initiated #know

Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#ceases #individual #individual liberty #liberty #state