Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Words

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

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

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.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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

Ibsen, Henrik

Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word -- heed well! -- this mine and thine.

Silesius, Angelus

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?

Diller, Phyllis

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

Mohammed

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A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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You can stroke people with words.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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.

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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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The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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

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Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Wright, Steven

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

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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 tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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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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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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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

Card, Orson Scott

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