Quotes about Articulation
A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.
- Euripides
The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.
- Mortimer Adler
She is skilled at communicating the 'context' for her comments with the goal of ensuring understanding.
- Patrick Lencioni
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.
- Amanda Gorman
People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.
- John Maxwell
The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.
- John Maxwell
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
- Heinrich Heine
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
- Thomas Jefferson
How she hated words, always coming between her and life: they did the ravishing, if anything did: ready-made words and phrases, sucking all the life-sap out of living things.
- DH Lawrence
We developed this ability to communicate with words.
- Jane Goodall
That was when I learned that words are no good; that words dont ever fit even what they are trying to say at.
- William Faulkner