Motivational Quotes

Speech

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

- Cioran, E. M.

Best Quotes about Speech

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.

Sir William Osler

I've decided to discontinue my long talks. It's because of my throat. Someone threatened to cut it.

Speech is always bolder than action.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I can't say it myself.

Campbell, Patrick

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

Whitehead, Alfred North

Do not fight verbosity with words: speech is given to all, intelligence to few.

Moralia

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

Cioran, E. M.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

Thomas Carlyle

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.

Barthes, Roland

10.

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

Benjamin Disraeli

11.

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.

Maxims of Ptahhotep

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The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly --because if they don't speak fast nobody will listen to them.

Caine, Michael

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How absolute the knave is! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us.

William Shakespeare

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Things are often spoke and seldom meant.

William Shakespeare

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Never try to impress people with the profundity of your thought by the obscurity of your language. Whatever has been thoroughly thought through can be stated simply.

17.

If you don't want to read it, see it or hear it, don't say it.

18.

Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.

Arendt, Hannah

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The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency.

Walter Bagehot

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Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

Sophocles

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Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Jean Baptiste Rousseau

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The mind is a wonderful thing. It starts working the minute you're born and never stops working until you get up to speak in public.

Ball, Patricia Ann

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Speech is the mirror of the mind. (Imago Animi Sermo Est)

Seneca

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Be check'd for silence, but never tax'd for speech.

William Shakespeare

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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

Chuang-tzu

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Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.

Publilius Syrus

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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, --for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it -- not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.

Melville, Herman

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I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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I do not speak to thee in drink but in tears, not in pleasure but in passion, not in words only, but in woes also.

William Shakespeare

31.

What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.

Hansell B. Duckett

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Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Bismarck, Otto Von

33.

Men of few words are the best men.

William Shakespeare

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Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so he is.

Syrus, Publilius

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The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword: but not so many as have fallen by the tongue. [Ecclesiasticus 28:17 --18]

Bible

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Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

Ovid

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Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.

Paz, Octavio

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Be it art or hap, he hath spoken true.

William Shakespeare

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Listening to someone talk isn't at all like listening to their words played over on a machine. What you hear when you have a face before you is never what you hear when you have before you a winding tape.

Fallaci, Oriana

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We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Sweet Benjamin, since thou art young, and hast not yet the use of tongue, make it thy slave, while thou art free; Imprison it, lest it do thee.

Hoskins, John

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Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

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It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?

Aitkins, Eileen

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Thought is the fountain of speech.

Chrysippus

45.

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

Hesse, Hermann

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Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.

Seneca

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Though thou speak'st truth, methink thou speak'st not well.