Fingers Quote by Alfred Korzybski

It is easier not to speak a word at all than to speak more words than we should.

— Thomas a Kempis

The highest cannot be spoken; it can only be acted.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Speak simple, speak plain, speak clear, otherwise you may not be understood! The objective of a speech is to be understood! Let your message…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

The fact is that the more we take flight upward [to God], the more our words are confined to the ideas we are capable…

— Pope Dionysius

When you focus so much on the word, you tend to neglect the realm of silence.

— David Steindl-Rast

We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile…

— William O. Douglas

We must ask ourselves how many times others would benefit more from our silence than from our words.

— Henri Nouwen

We depend on our words... Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others. We must strive continually to extend the scope of…

— Niels Bohr

Some subjects come up suddenly in our speech and cannot be silenced.

— Mason Cooley

There are things that can only be conveyed through words.

— Kreyzii

...words are the gateway to reality, the means by which we engage with the objective truth beyond ourselves.

— Joseph Pearce

Speech is the index of the mind.

— Seneca the Younger