Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Words

The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Stalin, Joseph

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

Like an arrow to its mark flies the word good man's word.

Platen

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs.

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mohammed

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Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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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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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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Our great men have written words of wisdom to be used when hardship must be faced. Life obliges us with hardship so the words of wisdom shouldn't go to waste.

L'Chiam

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

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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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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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

Gladden, W.

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

Wright, Steven

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Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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

Reid, Thomas

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I have never been hurt by what I have not said.

Coolidge, Calvin

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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

Ibsen, Henrik

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Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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

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A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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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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There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God.

Zinsser, William

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

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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.

Walesa, Lech

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Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like excuse me and other such simple courtesies... Rudeness, the absence of the sacrament of consideration, is but another mark that our time-is-money society is lacking in spirituality, if not also in its enjoyment of life.

Hays, Ed

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

Lowell, James Russell

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I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young. And the words wander away, looking in the nooks and crannies of vocabulary for new company, bad company.

Bachelard, Gaston