Comparatively Quote by John Wesley Powell

A multitude of words is probably the most formidable means of blurring and obscuring thought. There is no thought, however momentous, that cannot be…

— Eric Hoffer

A limited vocabulary, but one with which you can make numerous combinations, is better than thirty thousand words that only hamper the action of…

— Paul Valery

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

— Anonymous

“ideas are so elastic in a human brain, that they have no constant measure which may be called their actual bulk. Any important idea…

— Thomas Hardy

When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.

— Lynn Abbey

You can suffocate a thought by expressing it with too many words.

— Frank A. Clark

To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words stamps the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

a single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually.

— Madeleine L'Engle

It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.

— Aristophanes

The communication of ideas requires a similitude of thought and language . . .

— Edward Gibbon

Our thoughts, our language, are always at a distance from whatever they're trying to describe. We have other kinds of languages, like mathematics, like…

— John Edgar Wideman