Fancy Quote by Isaac Barrow

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.

— Confucius

Only words and conventions can isolate us from the entirely undefinable something which is everything.

— Anonymous

Words are such gross machinery, so primitive and ambiguous.

— Frank Herbert

Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said in any…

— Robert A. Heinlein

There is a simplicity that exists on the far side of complexity, and there is a communication of sentiment and attitude not to be…

— Anonymous

Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.

— Petrarch

There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of…

— Washington Irving

There cannot be a language more universal and more simple, more free from errors and obscurities...more worthy to express the invariable relations of all…

— Joseph Fourier

So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.

— John Locke

Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.

— Jasper Fforde

Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it.

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

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