Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Reid, Thomas

Best Quotes about Words

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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

Zinsser, William

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Reid, Thomas

Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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You can stroke people with words.

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

Adams, John

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

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

Mohammed

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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.

18.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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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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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Platen

26.

Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.

Stalin, Joseph

27.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Cather, Willa

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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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

Twain, Mark

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Wright, Steven

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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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

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

Woolf, Virginia