Communication Quote by John Searle

Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.

— Antoine Rivarol

Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view of the…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

As medium for reaching understanding, speech acts serve: a) to establish and renew interpersonal relations, whereby the speaker takes up a relation to something…

— Jurgen Habermas

Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we…

— Henry David Thoreau

We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.

— Oliver Sacks

A speech is something you say so as to distract attention from what you do not say.

— Anonymous

The intentions of people are easy to reveal by simply knowing when their statements are indirect.

— Luke Garner

Speech is the index of the mind.

— Seneca the Younger

Speech is the image of actions

— Anonymous

Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature.

— Maria Montessori

Speech is but the incorporation of thought.

— Joseph Joubert