Agree Quote by Washington Allston

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

— Baruch Spinoza

In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

— Samuel Johnson

No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him,…

— James A. Garfield

There are some things which a man never speaks of, which are much finer kept silent about. To the highest communications we only lend…

— Henry David Thoreau

Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.

— Cato the Younger

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 not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view of the…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

There is nothing so delightful as the hearing, or the speaking of truth. For this reason, there is no conversation so agreeable as that…

— Plato

What would happen if we spoke the truth?

— Alison Bechdel

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

— Samuel Johnson

For the only way one can speak of nothing is to speak of it as though it were something, just as the only way…

— Samuel Beckett

If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.

— W. Somerset Maugham