Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.
Thomas Sowell

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.
Martin Heidegger

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
Michel de Montaigne

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
Michel de Montaigne

If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
Michel de Montaigne

Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
Michel de Montaigne

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.
Pat Riley

Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
Marshall McLuhan

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
Will Durant

Many of the Central Asians know Russian, and Ted Levin speaks it fluently. I speak Chinese, but Mongolian is completely different, so we had to have translators.
Yo-Yo Ma

All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.
Karl Von Clausewitz

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
Thomas Carlyle

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.
George Santayana

A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
Benjamin Disraeli

By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas.
Nicholas Sparks

I can speak Esperanto like a native.
Spike Milligan

You are undoubtedly acquainted with my Reputation, and as for my Penmanship it must speak for itself; this is to desire your Approbation to keep a public school.
Eli Whitney