Intelligent Conversation Quotes:

We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.

- Agnes Repplier

source: Agnes Repplier (1904). “Compromises”

topic: Intelligent, Conversation, Vistas, Intelligent Conversation, Good Humour

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

- Truman Capote

source: "Leadership Divided: What Emerging Leaders Need and What You Might Be Missing". Book by Ron A. Carucci, September 30, 2006.

topic: Communication, Intelligent, Talking, Monologues, Intelligent Conversation

If the minds of women were enlightened and improved, the domestic work would be more frequently refreshed by intelligent conversation, a means of edification now deplorably neglected, for want of that cultivation which these intellectual advantages would confer.

- Sarah Moore Grimke

topic: Mean, Intelligent, Mind, Intelligent Conversation, Cultivation

My misfortune is doubly painful to me because it will result in my being misunderstood. For me there can be no recreation in the company of others, no intelligent conversation, no exchange of information with peers; only the most pressing needs can make me venture into society. I am obliged to live like an outcast.

- Ludwig van Beethoven

topic: Intelligent, Misunderstood, Venture, Intelligent Conversation, Being Misunderstood

I don't know who did the hacking [through president election 2016]. The article is based on a lie that the R.N.C. was hacked. So the entire premise of the article is false. The sources are unnamed. And the report was inconclusive.The point is, though, we need to find out more facts about this situation. Then we can make intelligent decisions later, and you and I can have more intelligent conversation about what to do about it.

- Reince Priebus

source: Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

topic: Lying, Intelligent, Decision, Intelligent Conversation

All the inane, meaningless noises people make that pass for intelligent conversation. They might as well be pigs grunting in the pen. (92)

- Norma Fox Mazer

topic: Intelligent, Pigs, People, Intelligent Conversation

I barely got out of school, I got out of school, mainly, because I was a champ, and I actually didn't pass. I won't name the teachers that put me through, but I want. If I was not a Muslim, or a follower of the Honorable Elijah Mohammed I couldn't talk to somebody for two minutes. I believe I can hold my own as an intelligent conversation, but it all come from the Honorable Elijah Mohammed.

- Muhammad Ali

source: Source: thefederalist.com

topic: Teacher, Believe, School, Intelligent Conversation

What I can't do is have an intelligent conversation with [George Stephanopoulos] about a report in "The New York Times" that is unnamed, inconclusive, and based on something that isn't true.

- Reince Priebus

source: Source: abcnews.go.com

topic: New York, Intelligent, Conversation, Intelligent Conversation

One other thing: at the meeting in Canada, [there was] the coup in Fiji. This comes to an important part of the Commonwealth: the role of the Queen [Elizabeth II]. I had absolutely just enormous respect for her as leader of the Commonwealth. You could talk to her about any of the fifty-one countries of the Commonwealth and you could have an intelligent conversation with her about the economics, the politics. She really immersed herself in the Commonwealth.

- Bob Hawke

source: Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

topic: Country, Queens, Intelligent, Fiji, Intelligent Conversation

It is possible to live the Christian life just on the surface, knowing only enough to carry on an intelligent conversation in the church foyer with another equally uninformed believer, but when that happens you are vulnerable to the attack of the deceiver.

- David Jeremiah

topic: Christian, Intelligent, Knowing, Uninformed, Intelligent Conversation

If you find common subjects or interests with a prospect, you can establish a business friendship. Ask about a diploma or picture. Your prospect will be glad to talk about what he/she just did or likes to do. Try to captivate him or her in intelligent conversation with engaging questions about their interests. It's obviously better if you're versed in the subject, because that's where rapport is established. Get the prospect to talk about their passions and what makes them happy.

- Jeffrey Gitomer

topic: Passion, Intelligent, Trying, Intelligent Conversation

The more you talk to cats ... the smarter they become. An occasional 'nice kitty' will have no measurable effect; intelligent conversation is required.

- Lilian Jackson Braun

source: Lilian Jackson Braun (1988). “The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare”, p.12, Penguin

topic: Nice, Cat, Intelligent, Intelligent Conversation

When we enter the landscape to learn something, we are obligated, I think, to pay attention rather than constantly to pose questions. To approach the land as we would a person, by opening an intelligent conversation. And to stay in one place, to make of that one, long observation a fully dilated experience. We will always be rewarded if we give the land credit for more than we imagine, and if we imagine it as being more complex even than language. In these ways we begin, I think, to find a home, to sense how to fit a place.

- Barry Lopez

source: FaceBook post by Barry Lopez from Sep 21, 2016

topic: Nature, Home, Intelligent, Intelligent Conversation

Surely she had endured enough for one evening without having to listen to intelligent conversation?

- Stella Gibbons

source: Stella Gibbons (1977). “Cold comfort farm”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

topic: Intelligent, Evening, Enough, Intelligent Conversation, Cold Comfort Farm