Language Quote by Voltaire Download Open image “One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Language Philosophy of Mind Use
There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought; but it's been my experience that a good many more use it… — George Horace Lorimer Copy Share Image
Words don't tell you what people are thinking. Rarely do we use words to really tell. We use words to sell people or to… — Robert Altman Copy Share Image
Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
If we understood the power of our thoughts, we would guard them more closely. If we understood the awesome power of our words, we… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
If we understood the power of our thoughts, we would guard them more closely. — Betty Eadie Copy Share Image
It is extremely natural for us to desire to see such our thoughts put into the dress of words, without which indeed we can… — Eustace Budgell Copy Share Image
Behind every word a whole world is hidden that must be imagined. Actually, every word has a great burden of memories, not only just… — Heinrich Böll Copy Share Image
I was thinking lots of things, but most of them needed to stay thoughts, not words. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
Usually male directors have to use foul language to get the job done. But I never came down to that level as being a… — Divya Khosla Kumar Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language. — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
You're beautiful, cute, pretty, gorgeous, and fuck.. I ran out of words. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The words for what I want to say right now don't exist. Everything sounds…so cliché.” — Shelly Crane Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Words can kill you trust towards someone, mind you language people, every reaction had its consequence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
