All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
Epictetus

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.
William Faulkner

I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
William Faulkner

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
John Locke

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
Sophocles

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
Sophocles

Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.
Sophocles

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.
Sophocles

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.
Georgia O'Keeffe

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
W. E. B. Du Bois

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Because my love for you is beyond words, I decided to shut up.
Nizar Qabbani

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
Blaise Pascal

Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.
Blaise Pascal

These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.
Paul Tillich