Motivational Quotes

Words

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

- Hemingway, Ernest

Best Quotes about 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

You can stroke people with words.

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

Political correctness is simply a speed bump in the traffic of truth, free thought and speech.

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

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

Mohammed

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.

Connolly, Cyril

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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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

Renard, Jules

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

Proverb, Chinese

22.

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

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

Cather, Willa

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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

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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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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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I have never been hurt by what I have not said.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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