Quotes on Words
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It isn't what you say or wish or hope or intend that demonstrates what you really believe. It is only what you do.
Brian Tracy
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
Dale Carnegie
If you can't state your position in eight words or less, you don't have a position.
Seth Godin
A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
Herman Melville
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
Mark Twain
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
Mark Twain
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
Abraham Lincoln
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
Plato
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.
Abigail Adams
I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.
Dorothy Parker
People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.
Cullen Hightower
Vocabulary enables us to interpret and to express. If you have a limited vocabulary, you will also have a limited vision and a limited future.
Jim Rohn
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
I am not as concerned about choosing the right words as I am in letting the words flow naturally.
Gerry Spence
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Teresa
The short words are best, and the short, old words are the best of all.
Sir Winston Churchill
A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
William Strunk Jr.
Without precise meanings behind words, politicians and elites can obscure reality and condition people to reflexively associate certain words with positive or negative perceptions. In other words, unpleasant facts can be hidden behind purposely meaningless language.
Ron Paul
There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
Josh Billings
That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.
George Boole
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word.
Stephen King
Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn't very much.
Eckhart Tolle
To the extent that language forces experiences into categories it is a screen between reality and the human being... Therefore, while using language, as we must of necessity, we should be aware of its shortcomings.
Abraham Maslow
Everyday words are inherently imprecise. They work well enough in everyday life that you don't notice. Words seem to work, just as Newtonian physics seems to. But you can always make them break if you push them far enough.
Paul Graham
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