Quotes and sayings about tag  power-of-words

One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths.

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• Truth

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

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• Wisdom

Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.

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• Writing

Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!

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• Life

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.

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• Truth

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

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• Books

My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.

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• Inspirational

Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.

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• Life

The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.

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• Wisdom