It is nonetheless the best usage that decides the meaning of words. — Wilson Follett Copy Share Image
A current pejorative adjective is narcissistic. Generally, a narcissist is anyone better looking than you are, but lately the adective is often… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
There is something myopic and stunted in focussing only on the meaning of words and sentences. And this myopia is especially unfortunate… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
For there have risen many who have given to the plain words of Holy Writ some arbitrary interpretation of their own, instead… — Hilary of Poitiers Copy Share Image
For it was not so much that by means of words I came to a complete understanding of things, as that from… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education. — Antisthenes Copy Share Image
Philosophers stretch the meaning of words until they retain scarcely anything of their original sense. They give the name of "God" to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The world of public discourse - political, social, diplomatic, commercial - has so corrupted language that we are rightly more suspicious of… — Deena Metzger Copy Share Image
If we accept that there is no such thing as 'zero risk' then we should not spin the meaning of words with… — Rob Long Copy Share Image
One of the principal obstacles to the rapid diffusion of a new idea lies in the difficulty of finding suitable expression to… — Arthur Schuster Copy Share Image
In the same way, the world is not the sum of all the things that are in it. It is the infinitely… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Contemporary poetry ... tries to transform the sign back into meaning: its ideal, ultimately, would be to reach not the meaning of… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
If language is to be of any use to us, then we ought to try and preserve the meaning of words, and… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Writing and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The soul contains few secrets and longings which cannot be sensibly discussed, analyzed, and polled. Solitude, the very condition which sustained the… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
How could an argument soothe or settle a controversy when every word is a nest for a bird of doubt? (meaning of… — Edmond Jabes Copy Share Image
Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is… — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
Like psychoanalysis, constitutional jurisprudence has become a game without rules. By defying the plain meaning of words, ignoring context and history, and… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
The meaning of words had no longer the same relation to things... Reckless daring was held to be loyal courage; prudent delay… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
What do we mean by "knowledge" or "understanding"? And how do billions of neurons achieve them? These are complete mysteries. Admittedly, cognitive… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Language can still be an adventure if we remember that words can make a kind of melody. In novels, news stories, memoirs… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
How fascinating to a child are words: the shapes, sounds, textures and mysterious meanings of words; the way words link together into… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
