Communication Quote by Cato the Younger

Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.

— Thomas Carlyle

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together ... Speech is too often ... the act of quite stifling and suspending…

— Maurice Maeterlinck

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.

— Oliver Goldsmith

The speech of God is silence. His Word is solitude.

— Thomas Merton

Silence hides nothing. Words conceal.

— August Strindberg

Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more…

— Thomas Hardy

Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

— Thomas Carlyle

“Men employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.”

— Voltaire

Silence is as deep as eternity; speech, shallow as time.

— Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as…

— Thomas Carlyle

Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it.

— James Earl Jones