Guarded Quote by Douglas Adams

Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.

— Margaret Heffernan

Words are inaccurate pointers to reality and should by no means be trusted.

— Frederick Lenz

...if you do not even understand what words say, how can you expect to pass judgement on what words conceal?

— Hilda Doolittle

When you use words loosely, without care and consideration, you erode trust in yourself and in what you're saying. When you squander words, you…

— Margaret Heffernan

A life spent writing has taught me to be wary of words. Those that seem clearest are often the most treacherous.

— Amin Maalouf

Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.

— Richard P. Feynman

One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do.

— Jose Saramago

Words themselves are innocuous; it is the consensus that gives them true power.

— Gloria Naylor

Why and how are words so important that they cannot be too often used.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.

— Joseph Joubert

They are words that are easy enough to say and which fill vast empty spaces.

— Paulo Coelho

“If words allow themselves to be handled, it is with the help of infinite carefulness. One has to welcome them, listen to the, before…

— Paul Nouge