Diction Quote by J. L. Austin Download Open image “Fact is richer than diction.” — J. L. Austin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Diction Facts Inspirational Love Money
However well equipped our language, it can never be forearmed against all possible cases that may arise and call for description: fact is richer… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to be quite true. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
We become obsessed with 'truth' when discussing statements, just as we become obsessed with 'freedom' when discussing conduct...Like freedom, truth is a bare minimum… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague. — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
In the one defense, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
Are cans constitutionally iffy? Whenever, that is, we say that we can do something, or could do something, or could have done something, is… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
The trouble is that the expression 'material thing' is functioning already, from the very beginning, simply as a foil for 'sense-datum'; it is not… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
The beginning of sense, not to say wisdom, is to realize that 'doing an action,' as used in philosophy, is a highly abstract expression--it… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
Is it true or false that Belfast is north of London? That the galaxy is the shape of a fried egg? That Beethoven was… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing. It embodies, indeed, something better than the… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
Our common stock of words embodies all the distinctions men have found worth drawing, and the connexions they have found worth marketing, in the… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
It should be quite clear, then, that there are no criteria to be laid down in general for distinguishing the real from the not… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
In one sense 'there are' both universals and material objects, in another sense there is no such thing as either: statements about each can… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
Enunciation, diction, all that stuff. None of that is in my personality. — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
When I was writing 'You Suck,' in 2006, I constructed the diction of the book's narrator, perky Goth girl Abby Normal, from what I… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
But wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things; so that picturesque language is at once a commanding certificate… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Jen and I were accustomed to our father's last-will-and-testament diction, and were at times free to interrupt Atticus for a translation when it was… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
How can one talk in a classical language about a child who's torn apart in an explosion in the market near his school? People… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
I think your conversations are indicative of your tastes - even your diction. — Miguel Copy Share Image
Many of the finest and most interesting emotions perish forever, because too complex and fugitive for expression. Of all things relating to man, his… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
Apostolic preaching is not marked by its beautiful diction, or literary polish, or Cleverness of expression, but Operates “in demonstration of the Spirit and… — Arthur Wallis Copy Share Image
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose. — Moliere Copy Share Image
Actually, I'm addicted to science fiction. Let me make my diction clear - I love sci-fi. — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
When I'm on television, I'm talking to millions of people, so the conversation is totally different. My words are different. My diction is different… — Keyshawn Johnson Copy Share Image
