Criticism Quote by Roger Ebert

Jargon is the verbal sleight of hand that makes the old hat seem newly fashionable; it gives an air of novelty and specious profundity…

— David Lehman

Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.

— Edsger Dijkstra

Jargon is making it increasingly hard to understand what a public figure is actually trying to say

— Don Watson

Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.

— Kingman Brewster, Jr

I suggest to young professors that their first work should be written in a jargon only to be understood by the erudite few. With…

— Bertrand Russell

For those who understand, no explanation is needed. Forthose who do not understand, no explanation is possible

— Hemantsmarty

I hate ideologies of all kinds, so I avoid jargon. I've done enough philosophy to know that some specialized terms are really needed. I…

— William H. Gass

Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand.

— Baltasar Gracian

Wise words are like seeds. The more you scatter them, the more they will grow into infinite gardens of knowledge.

— Suzy Kassem

The clear and simple words of common usage are always better than those of erudition. The jargon of the philosophers not seldom conceals an…

— Andre Maurois

“Contrary to Expectation. A wise man, the wonder of his age, taught his disciples from a seemingly inexhaustible store of wisdom. He attributed all…

— Idries Shah

To conceal a want of real ideas, many make for themselves an imposing apparatus of long compound words, intricate flourishes and phrases, new and…

— Arthur Schopenhauer