Quotes about Speech

There is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.

The parallel, rather, is with human language. It is human to have the ability to speak, an essential part of the image of God in us. Nonetheless, concrete language, which exists in countless forms, is not native but acquired; it is learned.

Like all knowledge, knowledge of God is mediated to us through our senses, through speech and symbol, mediated to us by parents and others. If this were not the case, we would be unable to account for the great diversity of representations of God. If knowledge of God, of the moral order, of the beautiful—if these were all innate, they would be universally identical and acknowledged as such.

Words are invisible, but if misused, can prove deadly.

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.

Your words are so powerful and precious. Learn to harness them, guide them and let them work for you.

My speech impediment wasn't a stutter but it was dropping several letters that I just could not say for several years, most specifically the 'r' sound.

When I was younger, I had a terrible problem with stuttering.

Never miss a chance to shut up.

Read Alexander Solzhenitsyn's 1978 Harvard commencement address on that one.)

As the rudder controls a ship, so the tongue controls a person.

How can you tell when the devil is lying? His lips are moving.