Essence Quote by Joseph Joubert

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

— Aristophanes

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

The virtue of a piece is the writer’s thoughts.

— Joan Acocella

Possible ideas and thoughts are vast in number. A distinct word for every distinct idea and thought would require a vast vocabulary. The problem…

— John Wesley Powell

Profound thought is conveyed in language of very great simplicity and purity.

— Charlotte Mason

It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself.

— Theodore Sturgeon

One can usually put one's thoughts better in one's own words.

— Winston Churchill

I was thinking lots of things, but most of them needed to stay thoughts, not words.

— Maggie Stiefvater

Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it…

— Ugo Betti

“The true thoughts that go on inside us are just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely…

— David Foster Wallace

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

— Frank A. Clark

It amazes me, how many words there are spoken, how many thoughts...yet each speaks freshly to me each time as if they were never…

— Stefanie Schneider