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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Speech, Wisdom

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Since men are neither omniscient nor infallible, they must be free to agree or disagree, to cooperate or to pursue their own independent course, each according to his own rational judgment. Freedom is the fundamental requirement of man’s mind.

Ayn Rand

Freedom, Liberty, Society, Speech

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We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.

G. K Chesterton

Liberty, Speech

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The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

Voltaire

Freedom, Society, Speech

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Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.

St. Jerome

Action, Speech

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It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs, but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason.

Aristotle

Freedom, Speech

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Some people’s idea of free speech is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage.

Winston Churchill

Freedom, Speech

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

Plutarch

Communication, Listening, Speech

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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.

Frederick Douglass

Action, Determination, Hope, Leadership, Speech, Time

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Listen with ears of tolerance, see through the eyes of compassion, speak with language of love.

Rumi

Communication, Listening, Love, Speech

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

Benedict Spinoza

Communication, Happiness, Listening, Speech

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Washington

Talking down to someone never lifts them up.

Jeffrey Benjamin

Communication, Leadership, Speech

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Honduras, Roatan

Listening taught you how to speak.

Jeffrey Benjamin

Example, Listening, Speech

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Grand Cayman

Telling a person they cannot speak cancels your opinion.

Jeffrey Benjamin

Leadership, Listening, Speech, Truth

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Lake Tahoe

I never met a speaker more important than a listener.

Jeffrey Benjamin

Leadership, Listening, Public Speaking, Speech

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Yellowstone National Park

Trying to silence a person speaks.

Jeffrey Benjamin

Speech, Truth

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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Napoleon Hill

Failure, Persuasion, Speech, Success

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

Pearl S. Buck

Life, Speech, Truth

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Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

Open your mind before your mouth.

Aristophanes

Communication, Speech

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People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.

Steve Jobs

Communication, Public Speaking, Speech

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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.

Jane Goodall

Communication, Justice, Kindness, Speech

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Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.

James Allen

Action, Love, Speech, Thinking

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Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

You have the right to offend me.

Jeffrey Benjamin

Confidence, Conflict, Self-esteem, Speech

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Lake Tahoe

What you don’t tell speaks truth.

Jeffrey Benjamin

Communication, Honesty, Speech, Truth

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

Thomas Sowell

Speech, Thinking

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

Voltaire

Communication, Speech, Truth

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Mount Rainier National Park

Practice what you preach or change your speech.

Hippocrates

Integrity, Practice, Speech

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Glacier National Park

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Cicero

Speech, Thinking

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