Discussion Quotes

• A good discussion increases the dimensions of everyone who takes part.

  Randolph Bourne

  Collaboration, Dimensions, Increase

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• Our ideas need to become part of everyday discussion.

  Bernie Sanders

  Ideas, Everyday, Needs

  Source: billmoyers.com

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• The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

  Joseph Joubert

  Inspirational, Victory, Intelligence

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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• Our best comes out when we have honest discussions.

  Fernando Flores

  Honest

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• Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.

  Robert Quillen

  Anger, Ignorance, Knowledge

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• Friends become wiser together through a healthy clash of viewpoints.

  Timothy Keller

  Friends, Wisdom, Healthy

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.72, Penguin

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• Always be willing to look at both sides of the argument. Understanding the other side is the best way to strengthen your own.

  Jim Rohn

  Entrepreneur, Understanding, Looks

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 13, 2017

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• I am quite a positive man in real life. In fact, even when I have a hard discussion with somebody, it lasts only five minutes. Then I forget. And I forgive everything. But at the same time, as I am such an easygoing guy, to create something more intense, I have to be auto-destructive on the making of a film. And this will guarantee some density.

  Albert Serra

  Real, Men, Guy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• No problem is so deep that it cannot be overcome, given the will of all parties, through discussion and negotiation rather than force and violence.

  Nelson Mandela

  Party, Overcoming, Violence

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.251, Pan Macmillan

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• Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Government, President, Anvils

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• A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Boxers, Philosopher

  "Personal Recollections" by Rush Rhees, Ch. 6, (Conversation of 1930), 1981.

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• A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Air, New Words

  "Culture and Value". Book by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, p. 2e, 1980.

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• Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.

  Quintus Tullius Cicero

  Government, Political, Politics

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• There can be no settlement of a great cause without discussion, and people will not discuss a cause until their attention is drawn to it.

  William Jennings Bryan

  People, Attention, Causes

  John Thomas Scopes, William Jennings Bryan, Tennessee. County Court (Rhea Co.) (1971). “The world's most famous court trial: State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes; complete stenographic report of the court test of the Tennessee anti-evolution act at Dayton, July 10 to 21, 1925, including speeches and arguments of attorneys”, Da Capo Pr

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• Good questions outrank easy answers.

  Paul Samuelson

  Nature, Asking Questions, Environmental

  Paul Anthony Samuelson (1986). “Coll Sci Pap V5”, p.561, MIT Press

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• Group discussion is very valuable; group drafting is less productive.

  Jon Postel

  Groups, Drafting, Valuable

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• New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Truth, Political, Politics

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• The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical controversies of the day.

  William Bennett

  Education, Character, People

  William J. Bennett (1989). “Our Children and Our Country: Improving America's Schools and Affirming the Common Culture”, Touchstone Books

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  Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

  Claude Monet

  Life, Art, Mental Health

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• Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.

  Peter Drucker

  Senior, Business, Mistake

  Peter Drucker, Harvard Business Review (2016). “The Peter F. Drucker Reader: Selected Articles from the Father of Modern Management Thinking”, p.9, Harvard Business Review Press

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• The great enemy of knowledge is not error, but inertness. All that we want is discussion; and then we are sure to do well, no matter what our blunders may be. One error conflicts with another, each destroys its opponent, and truth is evolved.

  Henry Thomas Buckle

  Errors, Enemy, May

  Henry Thomas Buckle (1861). “History of civilization in England”, p.518

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• Discussion in America means dissent.

  James Thurber

  Mean, America, Comedy

  James Thurber (1961). “Lanterns & lances”

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• The bitter clamor of two eager tongues.

  William Shakespeare

  Two, Abuse, Tongue

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1866). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Comprising His Dramatic and Poetical Works”, p.300

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• I never discuss discussions.

  Dag Hammarskjold

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• Science, history and politics are not suited for discussion except by experts. Others are simply in the position of requiring more information; and, till they have acquired all available information, cannot do anything but accept on authority the opinions of those better qualified.

  Frank P. Ramsey

  Acceptance, Science, History

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