Conversations are at the heart of what it means to be human.
- Theodore Zeldin
Rajasthan, India
A boy listens as the elders talk at a traditional wedding festival.
India
The character of a man is known from his conversations.
Menander (342 BCE – 292 BCE)
Tibet
The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.
- Michel de Montaigne, The Essays: A Selection
Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris
The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves
than in drawing it out of others.
- Jean De La Bruyere
California, USA
Lebanon
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man’s observation, not overturning it.
- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Yemen
Lebanon
India
Cambodia
When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you.
When it is unspoken you reign over it.
– Arab Proverb
France
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea
Brazil
KashmirSilence is one of the great arts of conversation.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
Kabul, Afghanistan
France
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing
at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
- Dorothy Nevill
Russia
Thailand
Bursa, Turkey
A single conversation with a wise man is
better than ten years mere study of books.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Maimana, Afghanistan
Afghanistan
