Motivational Quotes

Words

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

Best Quotes about Words

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

Mohammed

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

A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

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

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

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

10.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

11.

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

Zinsser, William

12.

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

Kraus, Karl

13.

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.

14.

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

Phillips, Wendell

15.

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

Diller, Phyllis

16.

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

Woolf, Virginia

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

21.

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

Glasgow, Ellen

22.

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

Lowell, James Russell

23.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

25.

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

Parker, Dorothy

26.

Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

27.

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

Ibsen, Henrik

28.

You can stroke people with words.

29.

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

30.

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

Gladden, W.

31.

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

32.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

33.

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

Silesius, Angelus

34.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Rohn, Jim

35.

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

Card, Orson Scott

36.

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

Lao-Tzu

37.

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

38.

Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

39.

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

40.

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.

Ellison, Ralph

41.

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.

42.

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

43.

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

Proverb, Spanish

44.

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

45.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

46.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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