Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

Every person's every action has an effect.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.

We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act.

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

The winged words uttered in this House have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of evil.

No action is without its side effects.

Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time.

Message matters. Message matters almost as much as actions.

Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.

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

Words are not trivial. They matter because they raise consciousness.

Don't imagine that a word you say is going to make a blind bit of difference.

Words are powerful. The tongue is powerful. And when you write it down, and record it, and press it up, it's 100 million times more powerful. It's important to utilize our tongue to help people.

Everything you touch touches you.

Language is powerful. Words matter.

There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.

If it's one thing we learned from the first book, it's that you don't have to be a prizefighter, or a world-renowned architect, or a concert violinist to have been affected by the power of words.

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it's too late.

Words have power. The power to soothe. The power to skewer someone through the heart. The power to render someone speechless.

Everything you do has some effect, some impact.

Words have the power to change us.

I think....you still have no idea. The effect you can have.

But once you throw a stone, there are ripples in the pond, even if you remove the rock.

Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.