Donald Miller Quotes

I love language, and I love the failure of language.

Don't express your ideas too clearly. Most people think little of what they understand, and venerate what they do not.

I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear

Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.

In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.

I really value words. I really try to illustrate and let people draw their own conclusions.

When we use terms we get confused, yet we have no other way.

Words let us say the things we want to say and also things we would be better off not having said. They let us know the things we need to know, and also things we wish we didn't.

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

There are always two or three or four sides to every story.

Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.

Words are but pictures of our thoughts.

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

In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.

It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.

Words are the money of fools.

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

Man can no more think without words than see without light.

Unless one understands the power of words, he will never understand men.

Words are slippery and thoughts are vicious.

Words, which are the dress of thoughts, deserve surely more care than clothes, which are only the dress of the person.