Mean Quote by Alfred Korzybski Download Open image “Words don't mean, people mean.” — Alfred Korzybski ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mean Mean people People
Say what you mean, mean what you say. But don't be mean when you say it. — Tammi Post Copy Share Image
When you say words a lot they don't mean anything. Or maybe they don't mean anything anyway, and we just think they do. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning. — William Safire Copy Share Image
The objective level is not words, and cannot be reached by words alone. We must point our finger and be silent, or we will… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
“We humans, through old habits, and because of the inherent structure of human knowledge have a tendency to make static, definite, and, in a… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the things we are speaking… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
To regard human beings as tools - as instruments - for the use of other human beings is not only unscientific but it is… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
I am the same kind of moron as the rest of you, it's the method that does the work, for me as well as… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
Second order effects, such as belief in belief, makes fanaticism. — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
Mathematics and logic have been proved to be one; a fact from which it seems to follow that mathematics may successfully deal with non-quantitative… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
That we have the vote means nothing. That we use it in the right way means everything. — Lou Henry Hoover Copy Share Image
The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean… — John Searle Copy Share Image
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
I painted the words "GREAT ADVENTURE" in Beijing, Dallas, San Francisco, Copenhagen, and Japan. What it means to me is completely different to everybody… — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Being blonde, for me, means never having to say: 'I'll have the honey-striped half-head of highlights for £200,' to a bored colourist in a… — Rachel Johnson Copy Share Image
It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean? — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
You have expressive nationalism, I mean very identity driven, which shaped each other a lot of that in the Middle East. — Subrahmanyam Jaishankar Copy Share Image
The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason is terror and force. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
