A Quote by Winston Churchill

He spoke with more eloquence than wisdom.

Winston Churchill

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Eloquence More Spoke Than Wisdom

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Winston Churchill
British - Statesman
November 30, 1874 - January 24, 1965

Eloquence is relative. One can no more pronounce on the eloquence of any composition than the wholesomeness of a medicine, without knowing for whom it is intended.

Richard Whately

Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.

Homer

I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.

Ben Jonson

The wisdom of the chess player is displayed more in winning over a capable opponent than a novice. The wisdom of the general is displayed more in defeating a superior army than in subduing an inferior one. Even more so, the wisdom of God is displayed when He brings good to us and glory to Himself out of confusion and calamity rather than out of pleasant times.

Jerry Bridges

He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence.

Lord Chesterfield

It is true that despite occasional gleams of Churchillian eloquence he [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] usually spoke poorly. He was far more effective in conversations a deux. But those who dismiss him as shallow because his rhetoric was fustian err.

William Manchester

The truth is mightier than eloquence, the Spirit greater than genius, faith more than education.

Martin Luther

Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.

Victor Hugo

O, let my books be then the eloquence And dumb presagers of my speaking breast, Who plead for love, and look for recompense, More than that tongue that more hath more expressed.

William Shakespeare

I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.

Patrick Stump

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Francis Bacon

Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.

Thomas Hobbes

There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.

Victor Hugo

The nature of our constitution makes eloquence more useful and more necessary in this country than in any other in Europe.

Bill Vaughan

Only in the West did a philosophy develop that was not only no longer the love of wisdom but went so far as to deny the category of wisdom as a legitimate form of knowledge. The result was a hatred of wisdom that should more appropriately be called ‘misosophy’ (literarily hatred of Sophia, Wisdom) rather than philosophy.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

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