Command Quote by Walter Lippmann

“A man's words reveal, first, the man. The words are not the man, and yet they reveal him faithfully and are to be identified…

— N.D. Wilson

It by no means follows, that because two men utter the same words, they have precisely the same idea which they mean to express:…

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Men's language is as their lives.

— Seneca the Younger

The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts.

— Richard Steele

Men don't need linguistic talent; they just need courage and words.

— Helen Fisher

Not a man to mince words. People, yes. But not words.

— Terry Crowley

Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to serve language.

— Karl Kraus

Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.

— John Selden

“Do you mean that we have more words than we need, I mean that we have too few feelings, Or that we have them…

— José Saramago

Men are apt to be much more influenced by words than by the actual facts of the surrounding reality

— Ivan Pavlov

Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself, might convey his notions…

— Samuel Johnson

It is by discourse that men associate, and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill and unfit…

— Francis Bacon