Motivational Quotes

Words

Words are the money of fools.

- Hobbes, Thomas

Best Quotes about Words

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

Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

Cather, Willa

The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.

Woolf, Virginia

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A word from the mouth is like a stone from a sling.

Proverb, Spanish

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Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Joubert, Joseph

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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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You can stroke people with words.

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We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.

Haldeman, Harold Robbins

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Please God, make my words today sweet and tender, for tomorrow I may have to eat them.

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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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Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Stalin, Joseph

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The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

Kraus, Karl

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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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Political correctness is simply a speed bump in the traffic of truth, free thought and speech.

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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 ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

Mohammed

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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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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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Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

Lao-Tzu

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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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You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.

Carnegie, Dale

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One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called weasel words. When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a weasel word after another there is nothing left of the other.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Keep your words sweet -- you may have to eat them. I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

Grellet, Stephan

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Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.

Yeats, William Butler

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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

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

Parker, Dorothy

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There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. Besides, to distrust words, and indict them for the horrors that might slumber unobtrusively within them --isn't this, after all, the true vocation of the intellectual?

Havel, Vaclav

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Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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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.

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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

Byron, Lord

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Words of love, are works of love.