833 Quotes About Speech

I enjoy silence but prefer speech: its energy, its warmth, its humanity.

In a word, the handsomest man I have ever seen, though, at the same time, perhaps slightly disgusting. " - Captain Hook at Eton

It was a day when I was preparing a speech to be delivered in praise of the Emporor; there would be a lot of lies in the speech and they would be applauded by those who knew that they were lies."The Confessions of St. Augustine

The Lord says, ‘use your mind, speech, body and the soul (the relative self, the worldly self) for others. Then if you have to face any difficulties, come and tell me.

The Soul is ‘chetan-parmatma’ (eternal element that is absolute supreme Soul). Not a single one of its attributes can be imitated. That which can be imitated are the attributes of pudgal (mind-body-speech complex). Speech is a ‘tape record’. Thoughts are ‘discharge’. That, which gets discharged is ‘pudgal’.

All that you speak is considered as egoism. Speech is open egoism. It is 'double the egoism' to say, "I have done, and I will do.

Servants do not speak at all, so how can I ever hope to speak as one?

It is a sense of possessiveness and inner attachment (parigraha) for speech to ask, "How did I speak?

Just about every sentence we say or hear is a recombination of existing words appearing in that exact configuration for the very first time.