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Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.
Poetry and Poets
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.
Appearance
Thomas Fuller

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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.
Speakers and Speaking
German Proverb

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When a woman is speaking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
Listening
Victor Hugo

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Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.
Painters and Painting
Joseph Joubert

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All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
Knowledge
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal

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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
Wisdom
Georg C. Lichtenberg

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From listening comes wisdom and from speaking, repentance.
Communication
Proverb

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Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.
Speakers and Speaking
Will Rogers

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O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.
Books - Reading
William Shakespeare

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If you are speaking the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Memory
Mark Twain

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Unconsciousness is one of the most important conditions of good style in speaking and writing.
Speakers and Speaking
R. S. White

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I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
Silence
Xenocrates of Chalcedon

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun