Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Woolf, Virginia

Best Quotes about Words

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

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

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

10.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

11.

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

Haldeman, Harold Robbins

12.

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

Twain, Mark

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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

17.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

18.

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

19.

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

Platen

20.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

21.

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

Proverb, Chinese

22.

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

Twain, Mark

23.

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

Reid, Thomas

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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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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 of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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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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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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

Phillips, Wendell

30.

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

Renard, Jules

31.

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

Kraus, Karl

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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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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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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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Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

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

38.

You can stroke people with words.

39.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

40.

All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

41.

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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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 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.

45.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

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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.

Adams, Henry Brooks

48.

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

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

Mohammed

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

Silesius, Angelus