Inspirational Quote by Michel de Montaigne

It is a great misfortune not to possess sufficient wit to speak well, nor sufficient judgment to keep silent.

— Jean de la Bruyere

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.

— Neil Gaiman

There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.

— J. L. Austin

Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.

— Simone de Beauvoir

History, mythology, and folktales are filled with stories of people punished for saying the truth. Only the Fool, exempt from society's rules, is allowed…

— Jane Hirshfield

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

— Oliver Goldsmith

For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men’s blood: I only speak…

— William Shakespeare

I begin indeed to fear that I have undertaken an impossibility, undertaken to tell what I cannot tell because no speech at my command…

— George MacDonald

The freedom to speak is meaningless without the corollary freedom to keep silent.

— Murray Rothbard

About what one can not speak, one must remain silent.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.

— Joseph Conrad

Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth.

— Thomas Carlyle