Dirt Quote by Lord Chesterfield

Words themselves are the intimate attire of thoughts and feelings.

— Karen Elizabeth Gordon

“Words are the clothing of our thoughts.”

— Jonathan Swift

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

— Hermann Hesse

Words are a lens to focus one's mind.

— Ayn Rand

Words are both better and worse than thoughts, they express them, and add to them; they give them power for good or evil; they…

— Tryon Edwards

Words don't tell you what people are thinking. Rarely do we use words to really tell. We use words to sell people or to…

— Robert Altman

The words are not mere words. They are the breath and mind, perhaps even the soul, of the person who is reading.

— Verlyn Klinkenborg

It is extremely natural for us to desire to see such our thoughts put into the dress of words, without which indeed we can…

— Eustace Budgell

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

Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.

— Margaret Heffernan

Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.

— Philip James Bailey

Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world. ... they bring the world into focus, they corral ideas, they hone thoughts,…

— Diane Ackerman