Sri Aurobindo Quotes, Self Quotes, Speech Quotes

To be free from all egoistic motive, careful of truth in speech and action, void of self-will and self-assertion, watchful in all things, is the condition for being a flawless servant.

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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

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Only begin, and you will become eloquent of yourself.

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...a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition.

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Speech is an old torn net, through which the fish escape as one casts it over them.

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It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to speak impromptu. I hesitated whenever I had to face strange audiences and avoided making a speech whenever I could. Even today I do not think I could or would even be inclined to keep a meeting of friends engaged in idle talk.

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I love free speech.

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Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.

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The greatest and truest models for all oratorsis Demosthenes. One who has not studied deeply and constantly all the great speeches of the great Athenian, is not prepared to speak in public. Only as the constant companion of Demosthenes, Burke, Fox, Canning and Webster, can we hope to become orators.

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When you have well thought out your subject, words will come spontaneously.

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Loud speech, profusion of words, and possessing skillfulness in expounding scriptures are merely for the enjoyment of the learned. They do not lead to liberation.

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Precisely because our political speeches are meant to be reported, they are not worth reporting. Precisely because they are carefully designed to be read, nobody reads them.

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A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

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He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe.

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A good indignation makes an excellent speech.

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Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

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In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak.

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And empty heads console with empty sound.

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Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.

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The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it.

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