Francis Bacon Quotes

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

Let me try once more," Milo said in an effort to explain. "In other words--" "You mean you have other words?" cried the bird happily. "Well, by all means, use them. You're certainly not doing very well with the ones you have now.

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.

According to my wife, my use of vocabulary is wide and varied.

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

I am not very good at expressing myself in a simple way so it can create mis-understandings and I hate that.

I don't like it when people don't know the difference between 'their', 'they're', 'there'.

Misunderstanding is the great enemy of every White House press secretary.

We need to become more acutely conscious that words matter. None of us would deny that ideas and opinions matter, but we can sometimes be careless about how we express them. The words we choose to advance an idea, opinion, or point of view have a huge impact on how people react and respond to that view. When we use hyperbole, we increase the chances of being misunderstood and of promoting equally exaggerated counter-reactions, especially when people are reacting almost instantaneously.

I have a small vocabulary, which I move around fast.

I never knew words could be so confusing," Milo said to Tock as he bent down to scratch the dog's ear. "Only when you use a lot to say a little," answered Tock. Milo thought this was quite the wisest thing he'd heard all day.

Whatever one wishes to say, there is one noun only by which to express it, one verb only to give it life, one adjective only which will describe it. One must search until one has discovered them, this noun, this verb, this adjective, and never rest content with approximations, never resort to trickery, however happy, or to vulgarism, in order to dodge the difficulty.

Words matter. Especially ones with four letters.

One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.

Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.

A writer lives in awe of words, for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator.

What a pity it is that there are so many words! Whenever one wants to say anything, three or four ways of saying it run into one's head together and one can't tell which to choose. It is as troublesome and puzzling as choosing a ribbon ... or a husband.

Lord Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words. Lord Polonius: What is the matter, my lord? Hamlet: Between who? Lord Polonius: I mean, the matter that you read, my lord.

Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings.

Language is the most beautiful and destructive thing because it allows you to express yourself, but it totally confuses everything.

Be respectful of words. They mean something.