Communication Quote by Plutarch

Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ideas of value always shun verbosity, being foreign to confusion and fantasy. Timely silence, then, is precious, for it is nothing less than the…

— Diadochos of Photiki

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

— Plutarch

I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think…

— Jimmy Carter

Advocates of 'free speech' often repeat the mantra that the best response to bad speech is more and better speech, not the suppression of…

— Jackson Katz

“The silence of the intelligent is better than the speech of the ignorant.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Many things are better for silence than for speech: others are better for speech than for stationery.

— Lord Acton

Asquith, when drunk, can make a better speech than any of us when sober.

— Bonar Law

“Silence is better than a fabrication.”

— Tracy Anne Warren

“Your silence there is better than your spite, For who can rail so long as they can write?”

— Alexander Pope

For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence; for thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling…

— Adam Weishaupt

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