Verbal Quotes

264 Verbal quotes by 223 unique authors

There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of… — Brander Matthews
Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under… — Siri Hustvedt
Faith must become more than a verbal proclamation or an intellectual assent. True faith must be acted out. — Millard Fuller
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced… — A. R. Ammons
I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working. — Sean Lennon
Ruskin believed that everyone had visual as well as verbal capacities that needed to be developed in order to become a complete human being, and… — Robert Hewison
Success consists in felicity of verbal expression, which every so often may result from a quick flash of inspiration but as a rule involves a… — Italo Calvino
This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the conscious… — Robert E. Ornstein
Watching how customers actually use a product provides much more reliable information than can be gleaned from a verbal interview or a focus group. — Clayton Christensen
I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter… — Moses Mendelssohn
You know how much I am inclined to explain all disputes among philosophical schools as merely verbal disputes or at least to derive them originally… — Moses Mendelssohn
By the time the child can draw more that scribble, by the age of four or five years, an already well-formed body of conceptual knowledge… — Unknown Author
No serious sociologist any longer believes that the voice of the people expresses any divine or specially wise and lofty idea. The voice of the… — Edward Bernays
Several national tests have revealed the following startling statistics about why salespeople fail...15% Improper training both product and sales skills. 20% Poor verbal and written… — Jeffrey Gitomer
We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual… — Walter Crane
Yes, I share your concern: how to program well -though a teachable topic- is hardly taught. The situation is similar to that in mathematics, where… — Edsger Dijkstra
This word "description" may be disconcerting when used to refer to what is generally called a translation. But when one wishes to render a verbal… — Gaston Bachelard
The things I saw beggar description ... The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty, and bestiality were so overpowering as to leave… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense. — Jorge Luis Borges
Genuineness requires listening through both verbal and nonverbal channels. — Unknown Author
Chess can help a child develop logical thinking, decision making, reasoning, and pattern recognition skills, which in turn can help math and verbal skills. — Susan Polgar
...One who possesses four qualities is deposited in heaven as if brought there. What four? Bodily good conduct, verbal good conduct, mental good conduct, and… — Gautama Buddha
Greg Kaidanov tried to get me to view his behavior as part of what makes him great - if he wouldn't get so upset about… — Unknown Author
We must realize that violence is not confined to physical violence. Fear is violence, caste discrimination is violence, exploitation of others, however subtle, is violence,… — Satish Kumar
If you try to assert wisdom before people have themselves walked it, be prepared for much resistance, denial, push-back, and verbal debate. — Richard Rohr

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