Between Quote by Jules Verne

A man may have intelligence enough to excel in a particular thing and lecture on it, and yet not have sense enough to know…

— Jean de la Bruyere

He that uses his words loosely and unsteadily will either not be minded or not understood.

— John Locke

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

— Charles Caleb Colton

“Speech is the faculty by which men conceal their thoughts.”

— Talleyrand

A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his uncle. They…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most…

— Washington Irving

A man’s mind is hidden in his writings: criticism brings it to light.

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence.

— Walter Lippmann

A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.

— Rex Stout

“What used to be a jocular and usually benign ridicule of intellect and formal training has turned into a malign resentment of the intellectual…

— Thomas M. Nichols

The scholar may lose himself in schools, in words, and become a pedant; but when he comprehends his duties, he above all men is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Why writers stumble over words when talking? Because we have so much to say, our mouths can't keep up with our brains.”

— Ksenia Anske