The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone says in a whole book—what everyone else does not say in a whole book.
- Topic: Communication, Speech
- Location: Capital Reef National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
A fast way to demolish relationships, shatter credibility and disrespect yourself is by not following through when you say you are going to do something.
It takes two years to learn to speak and sixty to learn to keep quiet.
Understanding a question is half an answer.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably gracious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
Listen with ears of tolerance, see through the eyes of compassion, speak with language of love.
Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.
Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burned women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
