Our Words Quotes - Page 2

• We depend on our words... Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others. We must strive continually to extend the scope of our description, but in such a way that our messages do not thereby lose their objective or unambiguous character... We are suspended in language in such a way that we cannot say what is up and what is down. The word "reality" is also a word, a word which we must learn to use correctly.

  Niels Bohr

  Character, Reality, Ideas

  "Philosophy of Science", Volume 37 (p. 157), 1934; later quoted in Roger Gerhard Newton "The Truth of Science: Physical Theories and Reality" (p. 176), 1997.

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• The World's a Printing-House, our words, our thoughts,
  Our deeds, are characters of several sizes.
  Each soul is a Compos'tor, of whose faults
  The Levites are Correctors; Heaven Revises.
  Death is the common Press, from whence being driven,
  We're gather'd, Sheet by Sheet, and bound for Heaven.

  Francis Quarles

  Character, House, Heaven

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• Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Action, Firmness

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• Our words can have power that we don't think we have in everyday life - anyone can make a difference.

  Adora Svitak

  Thinking, Differences, Everyday

  "Amazing Kid! Spotlight on Adora Svitak, age 12, Amazing Young Educator, Author and Speaker". Interview with Kasy Dallman, mag.amazing-kids.org. September 2010.

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• There are three kinds of violence: one, through our deeds; two, through our words; and three, through our thoughts. …The root of all violence is in the world of thoughts, and that is why training the mind is so important.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Two, Roots, Training

  Eknath Easwaran (2010). “Words to Live By: Short Readings of Daily Wisdom”, p.114, Nilgiri Press

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• For what St. Augustine said is true, that one can sing nothing worthy of God save what one has received from Him. Wherefore though we look far and wide we will find no better songs nor songs more suitable to that purpose than the Psalms of David, which the Holy Spirit made and imparted to him. Thus, singing them we may be sure that our words come from God just as if He were to sing in us for His own exaltation. Wherefore, Chrysostom exhorts men, women, and children alike to get used to singing them, so as through this act of meditation to become as one with the choir of angels.

  William Romaine

  Song, Children, Angel

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• There is a direct line that runs from our doctrine to our actions, from what is in our minds to what is in our words and ways... The heart spills over into life. Thoughts of God, and of all else, erupt into acts. The filling of the heart with wise thoughts of God becomes the most important, the most practical, business in the world.

  Tom Wells

  Wise, Running, Heart

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• Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.

  Yehuda Berg

  Inspirational, Encouragement, Hurt

  FaceBook post by Yehuda Berg from Sep 15, 2010

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• Tolerance means to fix our mind, to fix our words, & our actions on a higher principle.

  Radhanath Swami

  Mean, Tolerance, Mind

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• Only by affirming the animateness of perceived things do we allow our words to emerge directly from the depths of our ongoing reciprocity with the world.

  David Abram

  Depth, Ongoing, World

  David Abram (2012). “The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World”, p.56, Vintage

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• As a vital link in the conversion process, we should bear our testimonies that the gospel is true; our testimonies may well be the spark that ignites the conversion process. Consequently, we have a double responsibility: we must testify of the things we know, feel, and have felt, and we must live so the Holy Ghost can be with us and convey our words in power to the heart of the investigator.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Heart, Responsibility, Missionary

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• Our attitude is more honest and more consistent than our words.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Attitude, Stay Positive, Honest

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• Worship is simply about value. The simplest definition I can give is this: Worship is our response to what we value most. That’s why worship is that thing we all do. It’s what we’re all about on any given day……….the trail never lies. We may say we value this thing or that thing more than any other, but the volume of our actions speaks louder than our words.

  Louie Giglio

  Lying, Giving, May

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• Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Wisdom, Color

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As a poet and as an actress, we're taught to be far more elaborate with our words and - I wouldn't say generalize, but definitely stronger with our choices.

  Masiela Lusha

  Choices, Stronger, Taught

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into instruments of love and hope.

  Thomas Head Raddall

  Life, Hope, Giving

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• Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but so to express it as to enable us to defy the ingenuity of man to give to our words any other meaning than that which we ourselves intend them to express.

  William Cobbett

  Men, Giving, Language

  William Cobbett (1847). “A grammar of the English language, etc”, p.15

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• Let's discipline ourselves so that our words are few and full.

  Richard J. Foster

  Discipline

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• Our word choices give a sentence its luster, and they deserve intense attention.

  Constance Hale

  Giving, Choices, Attention

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• We are called to reflect the Lord's beauty through our lives as much as through our words, and God will use this in His own perfect time.

  Helen Roseveare

  Perfect, Use, Lord

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• Indeed our words will remain lifeless, barren, devoid of any passion, until we die as a result of these words, whereupon our words will suddenly spring to life and live amongst the hearts that are dead, bringing them to life as well.

  Sayyid Qutb

  Spring, Passion, Heart

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• Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words.

  Leonard Mlodinow

  Communication, Fundamentals, Way

  Leonard Mlodinow (2012). “Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior”, p.117, Vintage

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• There is a “yoga body” aesthetic, which is long and sinewy. I am curvy. I get praised on a regular basis, with people telling me, “Wow, you're so brave,” simply for showing my curvy body. Being brave is going to war; being curvy is not brave. We need to be careful with how we use our words.

  Kathryn Budig

  War, Yoga, Long

  "Kathryn Budig on Self-Discovery". Yoga Journal Interview, www.yogajournal.com. September 8, 2014.

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• Our word 'idiot' comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters.

  Edith Hamilton

  Men, Names, Greek

  Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub

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• We must believe in the power and strength of our words. Our words can change the world.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Believe, World, Power And Strength

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