Thought Exchange Quotes

There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.

Since I'm not a journalist, I talk about issues that encourage an interchange of ideas through conversation while also being entertaining.

Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind.

Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.

I think of Twitter as the place where I go to have a great conversation when I can't have one locally, which seems to be all the time, and the more time that I spend on Twitter, the more I sort of curate this incredible group of very intelligent people that I just get to know purely through the quality of their thoughts.

I want my thoughts to be an incentive for the reader to give his or her own thoughts. After I wrote 'Proust and the Squid,' I received truly hundreds of letters - I'm still receiving them - and the letters that I wrote back helped me formulate my thinking around things I know are important to others.

How or by what magic is it, that we convey our thoughts to one another with such case and accuracy?

Often thoughts are given to me with the sole purpose of giving them away.

If one talks to more than four people, it is an audience; and one cannot really think or exchange thoughts with an audience.

The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.

What is reading but silent conversation?

The only reason why we wish to exchange thoughts is that we are different. If we were all the same, we would die dumb. No thought would be expressed after we found that our thoughts were precisely alike. We differ-our thoughts are different. Therefore the commerse that we call conversation.

The best ideas start as conversations.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Exchange ideas frequently.

When I tell her what I’m thinking and she tells me what she’s thinking, our each ideas jumping into the other’s head, like coulouring blue crayon on top of yellow that makes green.

Where I live, there is a group of fans who take me out to tea every year to pick my brains about what's coming up.

Ah, good conversation - there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.