Speak Quotes - page 4

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)
Speak low, if you speak love. View quote
William Shakespeare
To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted. View quote
Alan Turing
O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken! View quote
Walter Scott
Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs. View quote
Jean Cocteau
Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent. View quote
Propertius
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. View quote
Karl Marx
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism. View quote
Sigmund Freud
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. View quote
Laurence J. Peter
All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future. View quote
Gerald Ford
Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, "Why do you not practice what you preach?" View quote
Jerome
Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks. View quote
Jean Kerr
In truth, men speak too much of danger. View quote
José Martí
Before I speak, I have something important to say. View quote
Groucho Marx
Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. No matter what language we speak, what color we are, the form of our politics or the expression of our love and our faith, music proves we are the same. View quote
John Denver
Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love. View quote
Miguel Ángel Ruiz
When people talk of the Freedom of Writing, Speaking, or thinking, I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more. (John Adams)
Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism. View quote
Blaise Pascal
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself. View quote
Blaise Pascal
There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Science and technology multiple around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute. View quote
J. G. Ballard