Behinds Quote by Edward Conze

One writes to find words' meanings.

— Joy Williams

“Humans assign words to things and pretend the words are adequate.”

— Kij Johnson

To conceal a want of real ideas, many make for themselves an imposing apparatus of long compound words, intricate flourishes and phrases, new and…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Words have meaning beyond the obvious. Words have consequences beyond intentions. Civil words align risk and reward of such unknowns.”

— John R. Dallas Jr

Words are not that important when you recognize intentions.

— Isabel Allende

“We do not create meaning out of a text; rather, we seek to find the meaning that is already there.”

— J. Scott Duvall

“Find and interpreting the important words.”

— Mortimer J. Adler

Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.

— Douglas Adams

Words are such gross machinery, so primitive and ambiguous.

— Frank Herbert

“Learn about intentions, for their importance is greater than the importance of the actions”

— Yahya Ibn Abu Kathir

“...be aware of the fact that words, in and by themselves, have no reality, except in terms of the context in which they are…

— Erich Fromm

The words are not mere words. They are the breath and mind, perhaps even the soul, of the person who is reading.

— Verlyn Klinkenborg