Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Best Quotes about Words

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Stalin, Joseph

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

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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.

You can stroke people with words.

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

18.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Wright, Steven

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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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Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

Cather, Willa

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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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As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of language; every human use of words that is joyful, or honest or new, because experience is new... But as a Black poet and writer, I hate words that cancel my name and my history and the freedom of my future: I hate the words that condemn and refuse the language of my people in America.

Jordan, June

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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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Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Phillips, Wendell

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All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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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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Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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

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Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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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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Keep your words sweet -- you may have to eat them. I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

Grellet, Stephan

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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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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Card, Orson Scott

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