Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Something's that written out is okay, but it's not always a clear indication of what a person means.

A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.

What isn't said is as important as what is said.

There's what people say, and there's what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two.

A story is told as much by silence as by speech.

Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.

The only thing you have to know are your words.

Words are powerful.

The words that are coming out of my mouth and how I mean them, it's so much different.

Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on. "I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least--at least I mean what I say--that's the same thing, you know." "Not the same thing a bit!" said the Hatter. "You might just as well say that "I see what I eat" is the same thing as "I eat what I see"!

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.

Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.

Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition.

I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Often it is important to listen to what people aren't saying.

It's what people don't say that is often the most revealing.

In any interview, you do say more or less than you mean.

Silence is a statement that is open to gross misinterpretation.

I need to be able to explain myself in context.