Men Quote by Mark Hodder

It is the man determines what is said, not the words.

— Henry David Thoreau

Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.

— John Henry Newman

Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most men think indistinctly, and therefore cannot speak with exactness . . .

— Samuel Johnson

He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most…

— Washington Irving

Even if a man should chance to speak the most complete truth, yet he himself does not know it; all things are wrapped in…

— Xenophanes

He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most…

— Washington Irving

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.

— George Berkeley

A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.

— Albert Camus

I must always forget how one word is able to pick out another, to manner another, until I have got something I might have…

— Anne Sexton

Men are apt to be much more influenced by words than by the actual facts of the surrounding reality

— Ivan Pavlov

Each man has his own way of being himself and of saying it so ultimately that he can't be denied.

— Henry Miller