All things Quote by Sophocles

It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.

— Agnes Martin

I want to make clear only that words are not the things spoken about, and that there is no such thing as an object…

— Alfred Korzybski

Words themselves are innocuous; it is the consensus that gives them true power.

— Gloria Naylor

Speech is but the incorporation of thought.

— Joseph Joubert

Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we…

— Henry David Thoreau

There is no good reason to suppose that whatever can be felt can be expressed in words, or indeed in any articulate form.

— Denis Donoghue

Words are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't.

— Colum McCann

Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do.

— Slavoj Žižek

Speech is the index of the mind.

— Seneca the Younger

There are things that can only be conveyed through words.

— Kreyzii

It is possible to have words come to your mind, and still refrain from speaking them aloud.

— Orson Scott Card

At certain moments, words are nothing; it is the tone in which they are uttered.

— Paul Bourget