Meanings Of Words Quotes

20 Meanings Of Words quotes by 20 unique authors

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! — Samuel Adams
The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary, the errors to… — Thomas Paine
If language is to be of any use to us, then we ought to try and preserve the meaning of words, and 'god' historically has… — Steven Weinberg
One of the principal obstacles to the rapid diffusion of a new idea lies in the difficulty of finding suitable expression to convey its essential… — Arthur Schuster
If we accept that there is no such thing as 'zero risk' then we should not spin the meaning of words with assertions such as… — Rob Long
For there have risen many who have given to the plain words of Holy Writ some arbitrary interpretation of their own, instead of its true… — Hilary of Poitiers
Like psychoanalysis, constitutional jurisprudence has become a game without rules. By defying the plain meaning of words, ignoring context and history, and using a little… — Joseph Sobran
Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to… — John Crowe Ransom
Language can still be an adventure if we remember that words can make a kind of melody. In novels, news stories, memoirs and even to-the-point… — Constance Hale
How could an argument soothe or settle a controversy when every word is a nest for a bird of doubt? (meaning of words as inferences) — Edmond Jabes
The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education. — Antisthenes
Writing and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform. — Bell Hooks
A current pejorative adjective is narcissistic. Generally, a narcissist is anyone better looking than you are, but lately the adective is often applied to those… — Gore Vidal
For it was not so much that by means of words I came to a complete understanding of things, as that from things I somehow… — Plutarch
How fascinating to a child are words: the shapes, sounds, textures and mysterious meanings of words; the way words link together into elastic patterns called… — Joyce Carol Oates
In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words. — Mason Cooley
Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his… — Guy Debord
The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the… — Philip K. Dick
Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness. — Katherine Mansfield
What do we mean by "knowledge" or "understanding"? And how do billions of neurons achieve them? These are complete mysteries. Admittedly, cognitive neuroscientists are still… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

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