Ambitious Quote by Rex Stout

Throughout human history, our greatest leaders and thinkers have used the power of words to transform our emotions, to enlist us in their causes,…

— Tony Robbins

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

Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woefully small targets.

— Patrick Rothfuss

We hear eagerly every thought and word quoted from an intellectual man. But in his presence our own mind is roused to activity, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in…

— William S. Burroughs

If words are to enter men's minds and bear fruit, they must be the right words shaped cunningly to pass men's defenses and explode…

— Anonymous

Words can enhance experience, but they can also take so much away. We see an insect and at once we abstract certain characteristics and…

— Jane Goodall

Hardly any original thoughts on mental or social subjects ever make their way among mankind or assume their proper importance in the minds even…

— John Stuart Mill

Gass once wrote: "Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it." Here is the…

— Dan Simmons

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages…

— Alan Watts

A better understanding of the brain is certain to lead man to a richer comprehension both of himself, of his fellow man, and of…

— John Eccles

We must find out what words are and how they function. They become images when written down, but images of words repeated in the…

— William S. Burroughs