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QUOTES including the word: "speak"

Jose Martí:
  • Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.

    • Plato:
  • Wise people speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

    • Epicurus:
  • We have two ears and one mouth so we can listen twice as much as we speak.

    • Heinrich Bell:
  • If the dead could speak there would be no more war.

    • Proudhon:
  • When deeds speak, words are nothing.

    • Jean Genet:
  • Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?

    • Hatim:
  • He who speaks the truth is always tranquil.

    • Buddha:
  • However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

    • L. Wittgenstein:
  • Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

    • Will Durant:
  • To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.

    • Karl Popper:
  • It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.

    • Dorothy Parker:
  • That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.

    • Ezra Pound:
  • “Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.”

    • Kazantzakis:
  • I said to the almond tree, 'Speak to me of God,' and the almond tree blossomed.

    • Pittacus:
  • Forbear to speak evil not only of your friends, but also of your enemies

    • Will Durant:
  • To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

    • Sathya Baba:
  • Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve the silence.

    • Isokratis:
  • Speak in two cases, if you know well or is a need to speak.

    • Octavio Paz:
  • 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.

    • Sathya Baba:
  • Learn to speak what you feel, and act what you speak.

    • Montaigne:
  • “If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.”

    • Homer:
  • Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is the man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.

    • Durant Will:
  • To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

    • Guru Nanak:
  • Speak only that which will bring you honor.

    • Epictetus:
  • First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

    • Durant Will:
  • To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves

    • Goethe:
  • Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

    • John Keats:
  • You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.

    • Epicurus:
  • Learn the meaning of what you are saying before you speak.

    • Epictetus:
  • We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

    • Plutarch:
  • Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

    • Sigmund Freud:
  • Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

    • Shakespeare:
  • Listen to many, speak to a few.

    • Heinrich Heine:
  • Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

    • Francis Bacon:
  • People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

    • Plutarch:
  • Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

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