Motivational Quotes

Words

Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word -- heed well! -- this mine and thine.

- Silesius, Angelus

Best Quotes about Words

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Mohammed

Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Gladden, W.

All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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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Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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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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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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My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host; that is to say, the word virus (the Other Half) has established itself so firmly as an accepted part of the human organism that it can now sneer at gangster viruses like smallpox and turn them in to the Pasteur Institute.

Burroughs, William S.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Platen

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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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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.

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You can stroke people with words.

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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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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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

Zinsser, William

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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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All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

Hemingway, Ernest

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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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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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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

39.

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

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The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

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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 of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

46.

What do you call a boomerang that doesn't work? A stick!

Kirchenbaum

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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.

Idle, Eric