speech Quotes

“silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.”

― Plutarch, Moralia

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“His ear heard more than was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.”

― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

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“For True and False are attributes of Speech, not of things. And where Speech in not, there is neither Truth nor Falshood.”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

topic:truth speech

“Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.”

― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

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“if nobody spoke unless he had something to say . . . the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

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“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”

― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

topic:speech silence

“Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

topic:speech honesty contradiction

“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;”

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

topic:wisdom speech listening

“I believe you can speak things into existence.”

― JAY-Z, Decoded

topic:speech existence

“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”

― Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

topic:freedom religion government speech

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