Voltaire Quote

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

Plutarch

• Poetry

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

Napoleon Hill

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Appearances are often deceiving.

Aesop

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

Niccolo Machiavelli

First appearance deceives many.

Ovid

Listen to many, speak to a few.

William Shakespeare

• Listening

I have no affectation when I speak.

Lisa Kudrow

Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.

Hesiod

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

Plutarch

• Self-discovery
• Happiness

This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.

Euripides

• Thinking

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.

Sophocles

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Jean Cocteau

• Truth

Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.

Phaedrus

Writers speak stench.

Franz Kafka

It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I try to distinguish my characters from each other.

Lucy Liu