Motivational Quotes

Words

All words are part true and part false.

- Kahn, Master

Best Quotes about Words

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

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

A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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

Adams, John

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Twain, Mark

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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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Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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 not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbors, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.

Butler, Samuel

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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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

Mohammed

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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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Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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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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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.

Ellison, Ralph

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Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Kirchenbaum

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

32.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Zinsser, William

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Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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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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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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

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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Reid, Thomas

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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Woolf, Virginia

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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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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.