Motivational Quotes

Words

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.

Best Quotes about Words

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

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

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

All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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

Mohammed

11.

A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

12.

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

Kirchenbaum

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

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

Silesius, Angelus

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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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Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Fripp, Patricia

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Proverb, Chinese

29.

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.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Platen

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

Parker, Dorothy

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