Top 36 Wisdom Speech Quotes
#1. Kindness in thought leads to wisdom. Kindness in speech leads to eloquence. Kindness in action leads to love.
Laozi
#2. The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft voice, sweet speech, wisdom, needlework, and chastity.
Theodore Roosevelt
#3. Lion sounds that have not grown from the mouse may exude naked power ... but cannot convey any wisdom or understanding ... The initial steps on the path to courageous speech then are the first tentative steps into the parts of us that cannot speak.
David Whyte
#4. The DISCLOSE Act is a testament to the wisdom of the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United. The First Amendment sought to place political speech beyond the government's control, and we can be glad that it did.
Bradley A. Smith
#5. The unicorn halted in her slow, desperate round of the cage, realizing for the first time that the magician understood her speech. He smiled, and she saw that his face was frighteningly young for a grown man-untraveled by time, unvisited by grief or wisdom. "I know you," he said.
Peter S. Beagle
#6. Be the best of anything you get into. If you want to be a whore, it's your life. Be a damn good one. Don't chippy at anything. Anything worth having is worth working for.'
It was her version of Polonius' speech to Laertes. With that wisdom in my pouch, I was to go out and buy my future.
Maya Angelou
#8. Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
Plutarch
#9. Wisdom is worried for being slow in its speech and expeditious in its actions.
Confucius
#11. Voices in the study of positive psychology, framed the traits as hope, wisdom, creativity, future-mindedness, courage, spirituality, responsibility, and perseverance. V. Paraphrased from a speech given by Bruce Springsteen
Martin Dugard
#12. without freedom of though there can be no such thing as wisdom and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.
Jack Russell
#14. When the heart sees injustice it turns to the perspective of oneness.
It feels no need to produce a big speech to overcome its enemies.
In silence it finds its peace.
Raphael Zernoff
#15. Every word that I utter matters and this makes me speechless.
Amit Abraham
#16. The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.
Chanakya
#17. The matter is as it is in all other cases: if it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice ...
Plato
#18. Where there are so many, all speech becomes a debate without end. But two together may perhaps find wisdom.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#19. 1CO2.4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: 1CO2.5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
Anonymous
#20. Endless invention, endless experiment,
Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness;
Knowledge of speech, but not of silence;
Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word.
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
T. S. Eliot
#21. The most important thing is this: to sacrifice what you are now for what you can become tomorrow.
Shannon L. Alder
#22. God in His infinite wisdom blessed humans with redundant tongues: one to outfit the mouth for speech. And a mother tongue to give it meaning ... Though it wags out such inconceivable beauty, attached to the mother tongue lies one much maligned woman.
David B. Lentz
#23. Wisdom does not only reflect itself in a person's knowledge of what to say. It appears also in his knowledge about how to say it and when it should be said!
Israelmore Ayivor
#24. Freedom of speech means setting words free. Imprisoned and freed words are consequential. All words have consequences. Restrain and release words with respect for their consequentialness.
John R. Dallas Jr.
#25. Twas a special gift of God that speech was given to mankind; for through the Word, and not by force, wisdom governs.
Martin Luther
#26. Speech is the deadliest of revealers.' - Hercule Poirot, Cards on the Table
Agatha Christie
#27. I believe in power of speech, and food inside prison.
Popo Santos
#28. All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
Cato The Younger
#29. Love and wisdom must govern our speech and how we hear the words of others.
Anonymous
#30. To master life, control the mind. To control the mind, guard your speech.
Radhe Maa
#32. Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.
Ptahhotep
#33. Sharon spoke slowly and carefully. It was, she'd found, the best way to create an illusion of shamanly wisdom, as people often mistook cautious speech for being thoughtful instead of panic-struck.
Kate Griffin
#34. Someone may be able to speak beautifully about compassion, wisdom, or nonself, but this doesn't necessarily help others. And the speaker may still have a big self or treat others badly. His eloquent speech may be only empty words. We can get tired of all these words, even the word "Buddha".
Thich Nhat Hanh
#35. It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.
Mark Twain
#36. A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.
Lao-Tzu
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