Communicate Quote by Robert South

Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.

— Robert South

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.

— Anonymous

“Speech was given to man to conceal his thoughts.”

— Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

“Men employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.”

— Voltaire

Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions…

— Miguel de Unamuno

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

— Talleyrand

Speech ... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.

— Agatha Christie

If language was given to men to conceal their thoughts, then gesture's purpose was to disclose them.

— John Napier

Speech, originally, was the device whereby Man learned, imperfectly, to transmit the thoughts and emotions of his mind. By setting up arbitrary sounds and…

— Isaac Asimov

Among a man's many good possessions, A good command of speech has no equal. Prosperity and ruin issue from the power of the tongue.…

— Thiruvalluvar

Regardless of communication between man and man, speech is a necessary condition for the thinking of the individual in solitary seclusion. In appearance, however,…

— Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben