Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Kraus, Karl

Best Quotes about Words

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

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

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

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

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Silesius, Angelus

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

Kraus, Karl

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

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

Platen

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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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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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All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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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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Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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

19.

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

Stalin, Joseph

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

Mohammed

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

Zinsser, William

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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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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Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world.

Hubbard, Ruth

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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

Wright, Steven