Motivational Quotes

Words

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses.

- Arendt, Hannah

Best Quotes about Words

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Reid, Thomas

All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.

Eliot, T. S.

When I look at you, the wheels of time stand still vs. Your face could stop a clock

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

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

Twain, Mark

Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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

Renard, Jules

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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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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

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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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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Mohammed

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

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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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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings.

Fripp, Patricia

25.

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

Cather, Willa

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Joubert, Joseph

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The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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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.

31.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Kirchenbaum

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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Zinsser, William

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Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Diller, Phyllis

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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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Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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

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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 have never been hurt by what I have not said.

Coolidge, Calvin