Motivational Quotes

Words

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Words

The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

Each group of words is processed by the brain as a single thought. And because the words are viewed in context, you retain them more accurately than if you processed the words individually.

Saperstein, Rose

In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.

Haldane, John B. S.

Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.

Lehman, David

Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the Buts that could be said.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

Reid, Thomas

Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.

Gladden, W.

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.

Hemingway, Ernest

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

Proverb, Chinese

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A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses.

Arendt, Hannah

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Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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The written word can be erased -- not so with the spoken word.

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I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside.

Chase, Stuart

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The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Adams, John

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A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words... the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

Twain, Mark

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Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

Waugh, Evelyn

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Why do social workers use five-syllable words when dealing with juvenile delinquents?

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For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.

Eliot, T. S.

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Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.

Daumal, Rene

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All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Rohn, Jim

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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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I don't give a damn for man that can spell a word only one way.

Twain, Mark

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Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

Twain, Mark

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Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbors, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.

Butler, Samuel

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A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Lowell, James Russell

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An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write metropolis for seven cents, because I can get the same money for city. I never write policeman, because I can get the same price for cop.... I never write valetudinarian at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen.

Twain, Mark

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If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?

Wright, Steven

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Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?

Diller, Phyllis

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It is with a word as with an arrow -- once let it loose and it does not return.

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Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why --but the editorialists forget it --terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.

Berger, John

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The two most beautiful words in the English language are: Check Enclosed.

Parker, Dorothy

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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.

Connolly, Cyril

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Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.