Saint Augustine Quotes

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

One of the hardest things in the world is to convey a meaning accurately from one mind to another.

People like to say, 'What do you mean exactly?' I would answer, 'I mean, but not exactly.'

We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don’t care if they make sense or nonsense.

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.

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

People have to find ways of explaining the work.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

It's technically extremely difficult to get down what you really mean, not what you think you mean, or what you think sounds good, but what's really there, what you really have to express, in words that somehow convey that meaning in an approximate way.

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

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.

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

How or by what magic is it, that we convey our thoughts to one another with such case and accuracy?

I have no message.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.

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

I think it's important for people to always understand what is the context is in what is being said, because that obviously determines what folks are talking about.

I have never had a problem with people not being able to understand the words and the meanings in Titus.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

The medium is not the message - the message is the message.

Words are intermediary between thought and things. We express ourselves really not through words, which are only signs, but through what they signify - through things.