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: Sylvia Field Porter was an American economist, journalist and author. At the height of her career, her readership was greater than 40 million people.
