Bertrand Russell Quotes

Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.

If you're a good numbers person, you're a bad language person.

I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.

Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned and worked at.

If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do.

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.

Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.

I analyse in my own way, in very simple, no-jargon language. If somebody is talking in very complicated way, I never like that.

Our government should speak a common language with the American people - plain English.

I'm pretty good with languages.

Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.

The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.

If you understand something well, you can represent it, describe it, embody it in several ways. Indeed, if you can only present it in one way, then your own mastery is likely to be tenuous.

I want it to be easy to read. I'm not writing exotic literature.

Why say 'utilize' when you can say 'use'?

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.

The reader is the content of any poem or of the language he employs, and in order to use any of these forms, he must put them on.

Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language.

And then you've got President Clinton who made the case as only he can. After he spoke, somebody sent out a tweet- they said, you should appoint him secretary of explaining stuff. I like that- secretary of explaining stuff. Although, I have to admit, it didn't really say stuff. I cleaned that up a little bit.

I don't speak ... I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.

Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.

The more sparingly we make use of nonsense, the better.

Uneducated people are unfortunate in that they do grasp complex issues, educated people, on the other hand, often do not understand simplicity, which is a far greater misfortune.

[Languages] became a tool that served me my whole life.

There is no problem so complicated that you can't find a very simple answer to it if you look at it right.