Word Influence Quotes

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

Was it really so far-fetched to think that words had a way of shaping a person's whole life?

One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits.

Sometimes the word dictated the melody.

Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

I shall repeat a hundred times; we really ought to free ourselves from the seduction of words!

Syllables govern the world.

Words, like angels, are powers which have invisible power over us.

But as he grew older, he learned that a word was a powerful thing. An insult didn't have to be shouted to bleed; a vow didn't have to be whispered to make you believe. Hold a thought in your head, and that was enough to change the actions of anyone and anything that crossed your path.

Words are just words. They only bother you if you let them.

Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.

The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it.

Man can change his conditions by changing his words.