Niels Bohr Quotes

Words are the small change of thought.

I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.

By words the mind is winged.

Words are slippery and thoughts are vicious.

All words are pegs to hang ideas on.

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.

Sometimes you want to say things, and you're missing an idea to make them with, and missing a word to make the idea with. In the beginning was the word. That's how somebody tried to explain it once. Until something is named, it doesn't exist.

All we can ever do is lay a word in the hands of those who have put one in ours.

Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.

These glorious things-words-are man's right alone...Without words we should know no more of each other's hearts and thoughts than the dog knows of his fellow dog....for, if you will consider, you always think to yourself in words, though you do not speak them aloud; and without them all our thoughts would be mere blind longings, feelings which we could not understand ourselves.

Words, mademoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.

The words are easy - most of them have already been invented.

I gotta use words to talk to you.

Whoever is versed in the jargon does not have to say what he thinks, does not even have to think it properly. The jargon takes over this task.

Words are the only bread we can really share.

Conversation is the legs on which thought walks; and writing, the wings by which it flies.

Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say.

The tongue walkes where the teeth speede not.

I look for the words, Professor. I look for the words because I believe that the words is the way to your heart.

Good thoughts not delivered mean squat.

The human language, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Because I am a storyteller I live by words. Perhaps music is a purer art form. It may be that when we communicate with life on another planet, it will be through music, not through language or words.

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.

I don't know how you feel, but I feel like writing, clarity of thought, and truth have been validated because we see what happens when we get lax in those areas. I'm excited by the idea that writers like us can actually reach out and try to understand and prod and agitate the people who are in support of Trump because we have the tools to do it. We're language people and we're idea people.