The purpose of education is to teach a defense against eloquence. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Thich Nhat Hanh has the ability to express some of the most profound teachings of interdependence and emptiness I've ever heard. With… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
A thunder-storm!—the eloquence of heaven, When every cloud is from its slumber riven, Who hath not paused beneath its hollow groan, And… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Finally, everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many things-eloquence cannot, nor… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
By a certain fate, great acts, and great eloquence have most commonly gone hand in hand, equalling and honoring each other in… — John Milton Copy Share Image
William F. Buckley, Jr. does not speak so much as exhale, but he exhales polysyllabically, and the results are remarkable. — Edwin Newman Copy Share Image
That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Beautiful eyes in the face of a handsome woman are like eloquence to speech. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
There is at least as much eloquence in the voice, eyes, and air of a speaker as in his choice of words. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If children had teachers for judgment and eloquence just as they have for languages, if their memory was exercised less than their… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Extemporaneous and oral harangues will always have this advantage over those that are read from a in manuscript: every burst of eloquence… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning; and these three last have never converted any. — Frederick William Faber Copy Share Image
In painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter your manner. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Whoever has received knowledge and eloquence in speech from God should not be silent or secretive but demonstrate it willingly. When a… — Marie de France Copy Share Image
William F. Buckley, Jr. does not so much speak as exhale, but he exhales polysyllabically, and the results are remarkable. — Edwin Newman Copy Share Image
In pulpit eloquence, the grand difficulty lies here--to give the subject all the dignity it so fully deserves, without attaching any importance… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
America could carry on a two years' war by the confiscation of the property of disaffected persons, and be made happy by… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
La vraie e loquence se moque de l'e loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has notime foreloquence,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Let eloquence be flung to the dogs rather than souls be lost. What we want is to win souls. They are not… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
