Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Best Quotes about Words

Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.

Phillips, Wendell

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

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

Zinsser, William

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Kirchenbaum

11.

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

12.

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

Wright, Steven

13.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

14.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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.

17.

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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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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Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

Renard, Jules

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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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Kraus, Karl

25.

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

Joubert, Joseph

26.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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The 500 most commonly used words have an average of 28 meanings each.

29.

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

30.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

31.

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

Proverb, Chinese

32.

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

33.

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

Twain, Mark

34.

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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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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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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The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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