He Quote by Henry Adams

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

— Henry Adams

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean

— Henry Brooks Adams

When you say words a lot they don't mean anything. Or maybe they don't mean anything anyway, and we just think they do.

— Neil Gaiman

There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.

— Richard Flanagan

Not all words fit into their meanings. Sometimes, what is said is not what is meant and what is meant is left unsaid

— Abhishek Tiwari

Sometimes not speaking says more than all the words in the world.

— Colleen Hoover

Nobody ever completely means what they say. Even when they think they're telling the truth, there's always something hidden behind their words.

— Orson Scott Card

Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually…

— Paul de Man

Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool; the ripples will spread and you…

— Philippa Gregory

It all means more than I can tell you. So you must not judge what I know by what I find words for.

— Marilynne Robinson

Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all.

— Patricia A. McKillip

It is the man determines what is said, not the words.

— Henry David Thoreau