Able Quote by Benjamin Whichcote

No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.

— Anonymous

It is better for the intellectual not to talk all the time. To begin with, it would exhaust him, and, above all, it would…

— Albert Camus

Regardless of communication between man and man, speech is a necessary condition for the thinking of the individual in solitary seclusion. In appearance, however,…

— Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben

Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?

— Thomas Carlyle

When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say.

— Gerald R. Ford

Speech ... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.

— Agatha Christie

No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation.

— Daniel Webster

Speech is reason's brother, and a kingly prerogative of man.

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

Every man should study conciseness in speaking; it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may please the…

— Owen Feltham

There are some things which a man never speaks of, which are much finer kept silent about. To the highest communications we only lend…

— Henry David Thoreau

Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Always have something to say. The man who has something to say and who is known never to speak unless he has, is sure…

— Dale Carnegie