speech Quotes

“He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.”

― Confucius, Analects

topic:words good speech

“I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth, but never in thy heart nor in thy practice.”

― Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

topic:speech faith

“But then I realized that writing something is different from saying it—and that love stories are built around people’s idiosyncrasies.”

― Arnold Schwarzenegger, Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

topic:writing speech

“the cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

topic:freedom speech

“He was essentially a truth-speaking man, if only he knew how to speak the truth.”

― Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux

topic:truth speech

“When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

topic:thought speech

“Those who know do not speak; Those who speak do not know.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

topic:knowledge speech

“It seemed as if my tongue pronounced words without my will consenting to their utterance: something spoke out of me over which I had no control.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

topic:words speech

“The captain has said too much or he has said too little, and I'm bound to say that I require an explanation of his words.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

topic:words speech

“Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly.”

― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

topic:thought speech

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