Force Quote by Denis Diderot

Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories.

— Denis Diderot

Words are finite organs of the infinite mind. They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth. They break, chop, and impoverish it.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or…

— Diane Ackerman

Language is memory and metaphor.

— Storm Jameson

Words spoken can not be recalled so think twice before you speak.

— William Shakespeare

“Any proposition containing the word "is" creates a linguistic structural confusion which will eventually give birth to serious fallacies.”

— Alfred Korzybski

Utterance is the evidence of foregone study.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sometimes a perfect memory can be ruined if put to words.

— Nova Ren Suma

There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind.

— Francis Bacon

No stile of writing is so delightful as that which is all pith, which never omits a necessary word, nor uses an unnecessary one.

— Thomas Jefferson

Words are the legs of the mind; they bear it about, carry It from point to point, bed it down at night, and keep…

— Richard Eder

Words can crush things that are unseen.

— Jewel