Oratory Quotes - Page 2

Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.

Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.

I must say I'm not very fond of oratory that's so full of energy it hasn't any room for facts.

We are chemists in the laboratory of the Infinite. What, then shall we create?

The difference between physics and metaphysics is not that the practitioners of one are smarter than the practitioners of the other. The difference is that the metaphysicist has no laboratory.

My mind is my laboratory.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.

If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.

I like to be in the laboratory with the doors closed. I like experimenting and trying things.

The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments of oratory.

Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.

I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.

The simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without.

Laboratories are useful, but reflection for us must always start from experience.

Only hidden and undetected oratory is really insidious. What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business.

There is nothing like oratory, it is a skill that can turn a commoner into a king.

Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.

The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.

A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself.

Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.

Why spend a day in the library when you can learn the same thing by working in the laboratory for a month?

The greatest and truest models for all oratorsis Demosthenes. One who has not studied deeply and constantly all the great speeches of the great Athenian, is not prepared to speak in public. Only as the constant companion of Demosthenes, Burke, Fox, Canning and Webster, can we hope to become orators.

The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation.

The library is the mathematician's laboratory.