“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Variant: Your actions speak so loudly, I can not hear what you are saying.
“Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.”
Social Aims <br class="br">Sometimes condensed to "What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say." <br class="br">1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Books, Letters and Social Aims http://www.rwe.org/comm/index.php?option=com_content&task=category&sectionid=5&id=74&Itemid=149 (1876)
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