One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.


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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts
VOLTAIRE
Man was given a tongue with which to speak and words to hide his thoughts. 
HUNGARIAN PROVERB
Man was given a tongue with which to
speak and words to hide his thoughts. 
HUNGARIAN PROVERB
After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?

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GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
JOHN DRYDEN
There are some men who are counted great because they represent the actuality of their own age, and ...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
One man's Voltaire is another man's Screech.
DENNIS MILLER
Inventory of our thoughts is the raw material We use to carry out planning & executing Tasks
ASHISH SOPHAT
One does not arrest Voltaire.
CHARLES DE GAULLE
One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.
AMANDA CROSS
That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.
AMANDA CROSS
The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.
AMANDA CROSS
Shocked? I consider Bob...
WALT WHITMAN Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS One man's Voltaire is another man's Screech.
DENNIS MILLER
142.—As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little m...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Imagine a world without words! Imagine a world without thoughts! Imagine a world without actions! If...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is ...
HILAIRE BELLOC
The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.
CAROLYN GOLD HEILBRUN
We have our share of accidents at nap time. However, the one thing we never do is shame the child, o...
JEAN PARKER
PU'RIST: one superstitiously nice in the use of words.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later...
FLORENCE SCOVEL SHINN
The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or lat...
FLORENCE SHINN
How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE)
One of the heaviest load so many people are carrying today is neither thoughts about things they lac...
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Bigotry lives not just in our words, but in our actions, thoughts, and institutions.
DASHANNE STOKES
Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about o...
FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER
Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about o...
FREDERICK W. FABER
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below.
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other.
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Do not use a single word to explain the meanings of statements or statements made meaningfully examp...
APURVA GAGLANI
One should use common words to say uncommon things
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Everything is bold and big. Enchanting is possibly one of the best words I could use.
JOAN DESENS
There was never anything to be gained from observing what humans said to one another--language was j...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Tradition:' one of those words conservative people use as a shortcut to thinking.
WARREN ELLIS
Our words are often only vague, inadequate descriptions of our thoughts. Something gets lost in tran...
OLIVER GASPIRTZ
The words we speak and the thoughts we think control our vibration. Our vibration is a magnet and ev...
JODI LIVON
The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives.
LOUISE HAY
Words are the tools we use to express our reality.
STEVE MARABOLI
As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, languag...
MARCEL DUCHAMP
Most of us are unaware of the words we use on a regular basis. We weren’t taught that the words we...
MADDY MALHOTRA
Put emotions to thoughts. Thoughts to words. Words to paragraphs. Paragraphs to pictures. Let your m...
DIANA ROSE MORCILLA
We become the product of our recurrent thoughts. Writing is one method of explicating upon our thoug...
KILROY J. OLDSTER
Oblivion is the place where all my best thoughts reside or I must say hide.
SHREYA GUPTA
One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called weasel words. When a wease...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these?
G. K. CHESTERTON
Subtle voices’ are those positive or negative words that are subtly spoken into our lives. These �...
D.S. MASHEGO
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
S.G. TALLENTYRE
O, the sheer magnificence of words that come together like waves upon a beach, each telling its own ...
JOHN M SHEEHAN
Common sense is not so common. [Fr., Le sens commun n'est pas si common.] - Voltaire (Franco...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE)
The key to any game is to use your strengths and hide your weaknesses.
PAUL WESTPHAL
Every word that is spoken and sung here (the Cabaret Voltaire) represents at least this one thing: t...
HUGO BALL
There are two main functions of "words" expressing your thoughts and hiding your thoughts.
LALIT BHOJWANI
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thou...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoug...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
Take care of your words and the words will take care of you.
AMIT RAY
The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY
The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas...
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Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
THOMAS GRAY
Life's rewards as well as it's short-comings are magnetic reflections of the vivacious energies we r...
NETIERA DANISE
To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Last words of wisdom. Whoever you were as a child, she's your future.
CHERISE WOLAS
Semantics is about the relation of words to thoughts, but it also about the relation of words to oth...
STEVEN PINKER
The more we practice nonviolence in our words, thoughts and actions the more peaceful will be our in...
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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every ...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every ...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
Never use big words where a diminutive one will suffice.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
There is great worth in holding universal truths and timelessly beautiful words in your heart, which...
DAN STEVENS
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."N. B.: This quote...
S. G. TALLENTYRE
You REAP what You SOW: Life is like a boomerang. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner o...
GRANT M. BRIGHT
Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care mor...
MARGARET THATCHER
Mark My Words, My Words In Other Words Are Not Just Words.
SYED SHARUKH
Every living word that gives life was once without form.
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON
No one can put words into my mouth, but they can put thoughts into my head.
ANTHONY T.HINCKS
Beneath words and logic are emotional connections that largely direct how we use our words and logic...
JANE ROBERTS
The 'soul' is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence o...
ECKHART TOLLE
The words fail & failure means two different things,but the ordinary mind prefer to use the latter,w...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Drunken words are sober thoughts.
EMILY PERNESKY
When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language w...
SOURCE UNKNOWN
When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language w...
We are not a victim of our emotions or thoughts. We can understand our triggers and use them as tool...
ELIZABETH THORNTON
Words are like the wind. They will blow away your own footsteps but they also will blow away the foo...
BRENT M, JONES
We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the su...
FLORENCE SCOVEL SHINN
We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the su...
JANE FONDA
Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great...
GEORGE W. BUSH
Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great...
GEORGE BUSH
Your story matters. The thoughts you think matter. The words you use matter. It can be the differenc...
KRISTIN RATH
Within Eros, there is (the) promise; within Love there is (the) Truth.
NOETIS
Use of No Use is Great Use. (Chuang Tzu)
SUNG YEE POON
The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
Words are clothes that thoughts wear
SAMUEL BUTLER
Their are thoughts words can't describe
ENRIQUE MIGUEL ALCALA SILVA
Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
SAMUEL BECKETT
As a human, we must try our best not to use 'F' words, especially FEAR.
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