Showing posts with label speech. Show all posts
Showing posts with label speech. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Thought for Today

"The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds."

~~~~~ Walter Bagehot

Friday, June 5, 2015

Thought for Today

"Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition."

~~~~~ Adam Smith

Friday, February 13, 2015

Thought for Today

"We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action."

~~~~~ Sarojini Naidu