Theodore Zeldin Quotes
When will we make the same breakthroughs in the way we treat each other as we have made in technology?
The kind of conversation I like is one in which you are prepared to emerge a slightly different person.
Each person is an enigma. You're a puzzle not only to yourself but also to everyone else, and the great mystery of our time is how we penetrate this puzzle.
I think the hero in our generation is not the individual but the pair, two people who together add up to more than they are apart.
We should strive to be employed in such a way that we don't realize that what we're doing is work.
The past is what provides us with the building blocks. Our job today is to create new buildings out of them.
All invention and progress comes from finding a link between two ideas that have never met.
Forks and spoons have probably done more to reconcile people who cannot agree than guns and bombs ever did
The great thing about marriage is that it creates trust, the most precious of things.
The violent have been victorious for most of history because they kindled the fear with which everyone is born.
To idolise a person means you don't get to know them, and the idea that you can become one is a myth, and it also means that you don't need to talk to one another because you're the same person.
The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone.
Conversation creates a new kind of network within organizations. Current networks are used for competitive advantage, but conversation is focused on encouraging people to realize their potential.
Brilliant lecturers shouldn't be wasted in lecture rooms: they should appear onTV. We need black market universities, in which people just help each other, and which don't leave out the poor.
People in this world of superficial communication find themselves isolated and lonely and have difficult in talking about personal things that really matter to them.
One of the great ambitions is to discover the diversity of the world, to discover who inhabits the world.
Two individuals, conversing honestly, can be inspired by the feeling that they are engaged in a joint enterprise, aiming at inventing an art which has not been tried before.
To be a catalyst is the ambition most appropriate for those who see the world as being in constant change, and who, without thinking that they can control it, wish to influence its direction.
The English reputation for humour is a way by which people avoid revealing themselves and have superficial relationships, so that you can engage in banter without making yourself vulnerable.
Never before have humans been so ambitious, have they thought that they could be much more than their parents were.
I particularly value conversations which are meetings on the borderline of what I understand and what I don't, with people who are different from myself.