Telling a person they cannot speak cancels your opinion.

The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future, too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.

Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace, and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely enjoy exercising authority usually lose it.

Meaningful silence is better than meaningless words.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

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

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

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

Never miss a good chance to shut up.

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.

It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.

Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.

Everything you say should be true but not everything true should be said.

Oh, I offended you with my opinion? You should hear the the ones I keep to myself.

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.

Can’t is the worst word that is written or spoken; Doing more harm here than slander and lies; On it is many a strong spirit broken, And with it many a good purpose dies.

Realizing the Divine as Truth will save you hours of work in research in any field. You will be led to the right book or the right place or the right person without loss of time, or the necessary information will come to you in some other way.

We know how to speak many falsehoods which resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul.

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

Without properly kept accounts it is impossible to maintain truth in its pristine purity.