Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Reid, Thomas

Best Quotes about Words

1.

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

2.

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

Reid, Thomas

3.

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

Adams, John

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

Twain, Mark

7.

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

Cather, Willa

8.

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

9.

Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

10.

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

11.

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

Ellison, Ralph

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Joubert, Joseph

17.

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

Platen

18.

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

Eliot, T. S.

19.

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

Twain, Mark

20.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

21.

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

Mohammed

22.

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

Kraus, Karl

23.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

24.

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

Parker, Dorothy

25.

Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

26.

Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

30.

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

Kirchenbaum

31.

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

Wright, Steven

32.

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

33.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

34.

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

35.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

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

40.

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

41.

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

42.

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

Arendt, Hannah

43.

All words are part true and part false.