Discourse Quotes
The level of discourse reaching a mailbox simply cannot be limited to that which would be suitable for a sandbox.
If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action. Thoughts, readings and discourse on love are of value only as they present questions to be acted upon.
Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.
The MDGs have been useful in moving human rights and development discourse together and in highlighting the need for greater accountability at all levels.
Rational discourse is only one way of presenting and examining an issue and by no means the best. Our new intellectuals are not aware of its limitations and of the nature of the things outside.
To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie.
A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men.
Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, Manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man
The driver of the power of intelligent systems is the knowledge the systems have about their universe of discourse, not the sophistication of the reasoning process the systems employ.
Political discourse has been reduced to "Where's the beef?" "Read my lips," and "Make my day." Where are the assassins when we really need them?
It is dangerous to engage in even the most innocuous-seeming discourse with the FBI/ Homeland Security/ a local detective.
On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provisions for discourse.
A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.
I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor.
Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.
Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with itself without spoken sound.
Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum.
The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantelpiece forever.
Secularists are often wrongly accused of trying to purge religious ideals from public discourse. We simply want to deny them public sponsorship.
I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.
We have to really be intentional right now about holding the media accountable, and taking back the discourse and terms of discussion. It's been hijacked.
If the propositions of this Discourse are tenable, the "state of progressive collapse" is precisely that state in which alone we are warranted in considering All Things.
It is a difficult task to talk to the purpose, and to put life and perspicuity into our discourse.
As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse.
What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of "true scientific discourse." It isn't.
I feel like musicians have such a precarious place in the political discourse, because musicians are, sort of just by nature, people-pleasers.
Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin are sowing the seeds of hatred and division, and there is no need for this hostility in our political discourse.
The reduction of political discourse to sound bites is one of the worst things that's happened in American political life.
Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes.
Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success; about the hollowness of failure they are silent.
Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.
It is still possible to have friendly discourse in America, as long as you don't bring up any subject.
One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the same might apply to states).
Without a rigorous, self-critical discourse, one risks lapsing into pious platitudes and unexamined generalizations.
What seems distinctively modern as a unit of thought, of art, of discourse is the fragment; and the quotation is one kind of fragment.
We are aching to come together and I think it has little to do with liberal or conservative discourse. I think it has to do with increasing disconnection with what is real and soul-serving.
Art in progress. MAK has occupied a unique and valuable space as international host for discourse between the arts and architecture.
You must lie upon the daisies and discourse in novel phrases of complicated state of mind. The meaning doesn't matter if it's only idle chatter of a transcendental kind.
Delivers in such apt and gracious words that aged ears play truant at his tales; And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.
That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty.
I think the reason you see so many people dropping out of politics is because there's an anti-poetic strain in modern political discourse.
I wish to note that the level of discourse in Nigeria is abysmally low, and, usually, garnished with character assassination. We allow our personal frustrations to becloud reason
President Obama promised to usher in a new era of civility in our political discourse. We should make sure that, quote, "talk to each other in ways that heal, not in ways that wound," close quote.