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. It is the opening of our mental pores, and the stimulus of marshaling our ideas in words, of setting them forth as gallantly and as graciously as we can.
Bio: Norm Phelps was an American writer. He was a founding member of the Society of Ethical and Religious Vegetarians, and a former outreach director of the Fund for Animals.
