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“Learning has been as great a Loser by being shut up in Colleges and Cells, and secluded from the World and good Company. By that Means, every Thing of what we call Belles Lettres became totally barbarous, being cultivated by Men without any Taste of Life or Manners, and without that Liberty and Facility of Thought and Expression, which can only be acquir'd by Conversation.”

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Book:Essays Moral, Political, and Literary

Source: Essays Moral, Political, and Literary

“Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.”

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Author:Andre Maurois

“Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don't just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape them, draw different implications from them, engage in new trains of thought. Conversation doesn't just reshuffle the cards: it creates new cards.”

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Author:Theodore Zeldin

“Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.”

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Author:Seneca the Younger

“Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation - literally. And 'knowledge workers' are simply those people whose job consists of having interesting conversations.”

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Book:The Cluetrain Manifesto: 10th Anniversary Edition

Source: The Cluetrain Manifesto: 10th Anniversary Edition

“Something fundamental changes when people begin to ask questions together. The questions create more of a learning conversation than the normal stale debate about problems.”

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Author:Michael E. Szymanczyk

“Advice is unfriendly to learning, especially when it is sought. Most of the time when people seek advice, they just want to be heard. Advice at best stops the conversation, definitely inhibits learning, and at worst claims dominance.”

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Author:Peter Block

“An organsation's results are determined through webs of human commitments, born in webs of human conversations.”

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Author:Fernando Flores