Add Quote by Tryon Edwards

“Words are both better and worse than thoughts, they express them, and add to them; they give them power for good or evil; they start them on an endless flight, for instruction and comfort and blessing, or for injury and sorrow and ruin.”

Tryon Edwards

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (8 ratings)

Add Blessing Comfort Endless Evil Flight Giving Injury Instruction Language Ruins Sorrow

More by Tryon Edwards

Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of…

Tryon Edwards

Image

Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.

Tryon Edwards

Image

Mystery is another name for our ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain

Tryon Edwards

Image

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

Tryon Edwards

Image

Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries.

Tryon Edwards

Image

The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine…

Tryon Edwards

Image

The leaves do not change color from the blighting touch of the frost, but from the process of natural decay. They fall when the…

Tryon Edwards

Image

Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of…

Tryon Edwards

Image

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better.

Tryon Edwards

Image

Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!

Tryon Edwards

Image

To rejoice in another prosperity, is to give content to your own lot: to mitigate another grief, is to alleviate or dispel your own

Tryon Edwards

Image

Hell is truth seen too late - duty neglected in its season

Tryon Edwards

Image

Explore all 104 Tryon Edwards quotes

More Add quotes

Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.

Ian Fleming

Image

Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed; and it is consolatory to think, that although we can seldom…

James Boswell

Image

Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless…

Michael Yates

Image

Give me a platter of choice finnan haddie, freshly cooked in its bath of water and milk, add melted butter, a slice or two…

Craig Claiborne

Image

Writing adds up to the conscience of our times.

Martin Firrell

Image

A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the…

Elias Canetti

Image

Observation and theory get on best when they are mixed together, both helping one another in the pursuit of truth. It is a good…

Arthur Eddington

Image

I may add that we have more than once stated our willingness to conclude nonaggression pacts with the states neighboring our own!

Adolf Hitler

Image

The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'.

Winston Churchill

Image

New generations of humans inherit the acquired discoveries of generations past, allowing cosmic insight to accumulate without limit. Each discovery of science therefore adds…

Neil deGrasse Tyson