Wise Speech Quotes

#1. It's like that old saying: You can't please anybody, so you might as well be alone. (Actually, I don't think that's the saying. I think it's actually, You can't please everybody, so you might as well just please yourself. Whatever. They're both exhausting.)

Jen Cross

#2. The most attractive sentences are, perhaps, not the wisest, but the surest and roundest. They are spoken firmly and conclusively,as if the speaker had a right to know what he says, and if not wise, they have at least been well learned.

Henry David Thoreau

#3. Buddha advised: Bhikshus and wise ones, As gold is burnt, cut, and rubbed Take my advice by examining my speech well - Not [merely] for the sake of respect.

Yangsi

#4. In abundance of words, offense will not be lacking but one who restrains his lips is wise.

Anonymous

#5. Babylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly, Nor leaves her speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her.

William Wordsworth

#6. A fool is known by his
speech; and a wise man by
silence.

Pythagoras

#7. Those who know about education have no power; those who have the power know little or nothing about education.

Marion Brady

#8. It's a wise person who knows the difference between free speech and cheap talk.

Doug Larson

#9. The water cleansed his soul of the clutter and junk he had acquired through advice from those who were loud, but wrong. Many who had claimed to be wise had filled him, like so many others, with fear, hate, and judgement - all emotions that could not be carried be carried into Eternity.

Scott Thompson

#10. When Knowledge Went North (excerpt)
As for us,
We came nowhere near being right,
Since we have the answers.
"For he who knows does not speak
He who speaks does not know"
And "The Wise Man gives instruction
Without the use of speech.

Thomas Merton

#11. Behind our wise words lie rare jewels;
behind our reckless ones, bombs.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#12. When Eudaemonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said he; "but he that saith it never heard the sound of trumpets.

Plutarch

#13. All equity categories, correctly calculated, create near-identical lifelong returns. They just get there via wildly differing paths.

Kenneth Fisher

#14. Human was simultaneously the bearer of God's wise rule into the world, and also the creature who would bring the loyalty and praise of that creation for its Creator into love, speech, and conscious obedience.

N. T. Wright

#15. I think I have a lot of crazy layers.

Blythe Danner

#16. Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.

William Osler

#17. By looking at a person's features, clothing, and speech, even Confucius would not be able to say what sort of a person he is. But by testing him in a position and seeing what he he does, even someone with so-so judgment would be able to know if he is wise or not.

Han Fei

#18. These Norsemen are excellent persons in the main, with good sense, steadiness, wise speech, and prompt action. But they have a singular turn for homicide; their chief end of man is to murder or to be murdered;

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#19. The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

Buddha

#20. O ignorant world that brutishly denies
Free speech unto the exquisitely wise!

Omar Khayyam

#21. Speech within the kingdom of Amazonia - run by its sovereign Jeff Bezos and his board of directors with help from the wise counsel and judgment of the company's executives - is not protected in the same way that speech is constitutionally protected in America's public spaces.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#22. Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak; care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking.

Thomas Carlyle

#23. I just punched a girl in the face.

Colleen Hoover

#24. There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#25. They judged me like they would judge themselves and that's what they could never understand, we are all human but we are not the same.

Nikki Rowe

#26. Isaac stared at Laurent and searched his warm eyes, which were just the color of melted chocolate. Maybe with bits of caramel. Great. He was thinking about Laurent's eyes like candy. Was he hungry or horny? Hard to tell.

Avon Gale

#27. There was a wise old owl who sat in a tree
The less he spoke the more he heard
The more he heard the less he spoke
Why can't we be like that wise old owl in the tree?
Speech must die to serve that which is spoken.

Paul Ricoeur

#28. The tongue is a venomous serpent, which is why the wise cage it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#29. Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.

Robert South

#30. There is a gentle, but perfectly irresistible coercion in a habit of reading well directed, over the whole tenor of a man's character and conduct, which is not the less effectual because it works insensibly, and because it is really the last thing he dreams of.

John Herschel

#31. The establishment of the kingdom of God is forever

Sunday Adelaja

#32. Of themselves diseases come upon men continually by day and by night, bringing mischief to mortals silently; for wise Zeus took away speech from them. So is there no way to escape the will of Zeus

Hesiod

#33. A fool's wild speech confounds the wise.

Walter Scott

#34. For he who knows does not speak, He who speaks does not know" (12) And "The Wise Man gives instruction Without the use of speech." (13)

Thomas Merton

#35. My job is to make people dream. Of course, there's a lot of technical stuff behind the scenes and a lot of hard work behind it, but I get to watch people see the result of that hard work and feel that wonder and feel that discovery, all the time.

David Copperfield

#36. For if any man thinks that he is alone is wise--that in speech, or in mind, he hath no peer--such a soul, when laid open, is ever found empty.

Sophocles

#37. The Buddha's criteria for Wise Speech include - in addition to the obvious expectation that speech be truthful - that it be timely, gentle, motivated by kindness, and helpful.

Sylvia Boorstein

#38. I reckon silence more profitable than speech, for? in the words of the Preacher, 'The words of wise men are heard in quiet' (Eccles. 9:17).

Saint Basil