Quotes About Speech

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.

No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.

Radite na tome da budete elokventni.Vecina njih zna samo da prica, mnogo vise nego sto treba.

The way in which the twists were entangled to knot up the mind-speech-body and the innate nature (relative self, prakruti), is the manner in which they will be untwisted.

The most precious things in speech are the pauses.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.

We live in a free country. While patriotism is important, liberty of thought and liberty of expression are even more important.

Our country is the only one that truly permits you to speak bad of your country, so you really shouldn't say anything bad about it.

Freedom of expression comes with responsibilities, especially when it comes with serious implications for peace.

Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light.

To speak his thoughts is every freeman's right, in peace and war, in council and in fight.

Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue.

Language was not given to man: he seized it.

Philosophy will tell you what to say, eloquence will tell you how to say it

You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.

Spoken words have power beyond measure.

Our most important problem is that we can talk to express our thoughts.

What comes out of the mouth is the state of the mind.