Communication Quote by Plutarch Download Open image “A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech” — Plutarch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Communication Silence Speech
The constancy of sages is nothing but the art of locking up their agitation in their hearts. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
All my days have I grown up among the Sages and I have found naught better for a man than silence. — Gamaliel Copy Share Image
If silence is good for the wise, how much better is it for the foolish! — Ivan Panin Copy Share Image
Silence is the adornment of the wise, and for the foolish the only dignity possible. — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Concerning great things one should either be silent or speak loftily. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Silence is the genius of fools and one of the virtues of the wise. — Bernard De Bonnard Copy Share Image
“The silence that, without any deferential air, listens with polite attention, is more flattering than compliments, and more frequently broken for the purpose of… — Arthur Martine Copy Share Image
When Eudæmonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said he; "but… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
King Agis said, "The Lacedæmonians are not wont to ask how many, but where the enemy are." — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Alexander wept when he heard from Anaxarchus that there was an infinite number of worlds; and his friends asking him if any accident had… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
There were two brothers called Both and Either; perceiving Either was a good, understanding, busy fellow, and Both a silly fellow and good for… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Why does pouring Oil on the Sea make it Clear and Calm? Is it that the winds, slipping the smooth oil, have no force,… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
This excerpt is presented as reproduced by Copernicus in the preface to De Revolutionibus: "Some think that the earth remains at rest. But Philolaus… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean… — John Searle Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“To engage in dialogue is to serve others via whatever is real inside you; to engage in debate is to ultimately serve the illusions… — Oli Anderson Copy Share Image
What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
In dialogue, there is opposition, yes, but no head-on collision. Smashing heads does not open minds. — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continue till a question is left without an… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I get afraid of the dark if I'm in a great deal of dark, and I have to move around inside of that fear...… — Emil Ferris Copy Share Image
I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and… — Helen Reddy Copy Share Image
Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
