Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Best Quotes about Words

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Stalin, Joseph

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

Cather, Willa

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

Phillips, Wendell

We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.

Haldeman, Harold Robbins

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

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

Diller, Phyllis

Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

11.

Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

12.

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

13.

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

Ibsen, Henrik

14.

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

15.

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

16.

The 500 most commonly used words have an average of 28 meanings each.

17.

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

18.

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

Mohammed

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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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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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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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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

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

29.

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Kirchenbaum

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Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

Lao-Tzu

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

41.

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

Reid, Thomas

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

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Please God, make my words today sweet and tender, for tomorrow I may have to eat them.

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

Waugh, Evelyn