Avoiding Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

Brevity: To say at once whatever is to be said.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

The expression of truth is simplicity.

— Seneca the Younger

I realize that we all do express ourselves, but those who express that which is always being done are those whose thinking is almost…

— Harry Callahan

Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips…

— Saint Augustine

There's sort of a dumb misconception that if a person is quieter, that means they have less to say or that speech is the…

— Fred Hechinger

Vague expression permits the hearer to imagine whatever suits him and what he already thinks in any case.

— Theodor Adorno

Even if a man should chance to speak the most complete truth, yet he himself does not know it; all things are wrapped in…

— Xenophanes

“The Couple Overfloweth We sometimes go on as though people can’t express themselves. In fact they’re always expressing themselves. The sorriest couples are those…

— Gilles Deleuze

A man says something. Sometimes it turns out to be the truth, but this has nothing to do with the man who says it.

— Karen Joy Fowler

The true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about…

— Percy Williams Bridgman

Uncommon expressions are a disfigurement rather than an embellishment of discourse.

— David Hume

“In his philosophy, nothing is held to be quite true, and nothing quite false; what can be uttered has only a limited truth, and,…

— Bertrand Russell