Quotes about talking
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Alice Hoffmanborn 1952The Dovekeepers (2011)
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.1841–1935Often credited to Oliver Wendell HolmesSpeak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894Often credited to Oliver Wendell Holmes- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894“To an Insect”, Poems (1836)
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859), Ch. 6
And silence, like a poultice, comes
To heal the blows of sound.Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894“To an Insect”, Poems (1836)- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894The Poet at the Breakfast Table (1872), Ch. 1
Homer900–800 BCIliad, IX. 443 (tr. Andrew Lang); Phoenix recalling Peleus’s charge to AchillesThe sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
Kin Hubbard1868–1930Abe Martin’s Primer: The Collected Writings of Abe Martin and his Brown County, Indiana, Neighbors (1914).
David Hume1711–1776An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748)Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
