Speak

Famous quotes containing the word speak:

“We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction: namely, when we are not speaking to the whole world.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“One cannot speak of ice to summer insects nor talk about the sky to frogs in a well.”
—Chinese proverb.

“I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)