Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Joubert, Joseph

Best Quotes about Words

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

Twain, Mark

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

Reid, Thomas

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Adams, John

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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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 money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Fripp, Patricia

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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 have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Zinsser, William

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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Joubert, Joseph

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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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

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

Wright, Steven

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

Kirchenbaum