36 Quotes Tagged: speaking

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We cannot control the way people interpret our ideas or thoughts, but we can control the words and tones we choose to convey them. Peace is built on understanding, and wars are built on misunderstandings. Never underestimate the power of a single word, and never recklessly throw around words. One wrong word, or misinterpreted word, can change the meaning of an entire sentence and start a war. And one right word, or one kind word, can grant you the heavens and open doors.

We make ceremony with words even as our words can lead us to the hells of destruction.

Lycurgus, who ordered that a great piece of money should be but of an inconsiderable value, on the contrary would allow no discourse to be current which did not contain in few words a great deal of useful and curious sense.

A deaf and dumb in the mist of morons is a renowed talkative among brains.

Bogert's face was bloodless, 'He's dead!' 'No!' Susan Calvin burst into body-racking gusts of wild laughter, 'not dead — merely insane. I confronted him with the insoluble dilemma, and he broke down. You can scrap him now — because he'll never speak again.

فكر قبل أن تتكلم، واقرأ قبل أن تفكر

A speaker of truth has no friends.

If I knew your thoughts, I would know what you are, for your thoughts make you who you are. By changing our thoughts, we can change our lives.

There's nothing worthless about being wordless, it will only save your mouth from talking gibberish.

The best kind of conversation is that which may be called thinking aloud.

One never said the things one wanted — one remembered them all an hour afterwards. On the other hand one usually said a lot of things one shouldn't, simply from a sense that one had to say something.

Criticize me if you can, but that won't stop me from saying what i like, my mouth is mine, and not yours.

Think before you speak. Read before you think.

Words deserted him immediately. He could only speak when he was not asked to.

Tut, tut! I have often admonished my pupils to count ten before speaking. Were I you, Mr. Philander, I should count at least a thousand, and then maintain a discreet silence.

36 Quotes Tagged: speaking

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