Quotes About Speech

True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.

Truth doesn't have to be liked. It only has to be spoken. Speak it out. The truth may hurt you, but it will set you free.

A truth is to be known always, to be uttered sometimes.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Searching for the Truth through words and speech is like sticking your head in a bowl of glue.

Truth needs not flowers of speech.

Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken.

Truth usually stammers at first.

While it is good to speak well, it is better to speak the truth.

Man can live his truth, his deepest truth, but cannot speak it.

I've always thought the most patriotic thing you could do in a democracy is to speak the truth as you see it. And that's what we're supposed to be about in America. Freedom of speech.

The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride.

Truth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it.

Truth and reason are common to everyone, and are no more his who spake them first than his who speaks them after.

Sacred are the lips from which has issued only truth.

If we are not most careful with our thoughts and speech, the words we use will use us. Language has its own ethics, and one who communicates truth is like a bright light in the darkness.

Truth sometimes corner unawares upon Caution, and sometimes speaks in public as unconsciously as in a dream.

There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberate Lie, why it was an Exaggerated Falsehood.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks is truth and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.

The moral of the story was that if you can talk, it's better not to tell the truth.

Saying that it's all in your mind is a figure of speech. Don't let your mind play with your mental well being

Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be equally outraged by silence.

If you do not have control over your mouth, you will not have control over your future.

Vulgar language, Chan said...Always the first and last refuge of the man with nothing to say.