Quotes About Words

The truth that could be extracted from words was such a fluctuating, relative truth.

We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don't stand up to experimentation, Buddha's own words must be rejected.

There is a deep power in words that speak the truth

Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.- Every word is a prejudice.

For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.

The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.

Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.

They say, the tongues of dying men Enforce attention, like deep harmony; Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain; For they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain.

Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth. That is its power and its fiction.

REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.

Liars are experts in chopping logic and missing the truth slightly - 'Did God say not to eat from any tree?' In order to pin a liar down, words must be defined in the most careful manner available.

Beware of biting jests; the more truth they carry with them, the greater wounds they give, the greater smarts they cause, and the greater scars they leave behind them.

With vivid words your just conceptions grace, Much truth compressing in a narrow space; Then many shall peruse, but few complain, And envy frown, and critics snarl in vain.

Though tightly the net of words forms, how surely truth slips out.

There are words and there are feelings and somewhere between where the two meet is the truth

There can be no literary equivalent to truth.

Of course the president Donald Trump said he wants to get to the truth. He always says that. But I think we all know that those words do not speak as loudly as his actions.

Don't you know yet that men are full of words that mean nothing? The silence of a woman is a thousand times weightier. You must learn to trust silence. To load it with truth, and to wait.

There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do.

A poet's first contract is with truth.

As there comes light from heaven and words from breath, As there is sense in truth and truth in virtue

The moral of the story was that if you can talk, it's better not to tell the truth.

Reality is always different than words or a story sometimes it's better, many time not truthful.

Speak with caution. Even if someone forgives harsh words you've spoken, they may be too hurt to ever forget them. Don't leave a legacy of pain and regret of things you never should have said.