922 Quotes About Expression

There are many things which can not be expressed by words. There are many words which can not be spelled by human tongue. There are many tongues which utter one single truth.

There are some men who are counted great because they represent the actuality of their own age, and mirror it as it is. Such an one was Voltaire, of whom it was epigrammatically said: 'he expressed everybody's thoughts better than anyone.' But there are other men who attain greatness because they embody the potentiality of their own day and magically reflect the future. They express the thoughts which will be everybody's two or three centuries after them. Such as one was Descartes.

You have to know how to be vulgar. Paint with four-letter words.

True wit is nature to advantage dressed;What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

There have been times I've felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists.

Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.

In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness."(On the Bravery of the English Common Soldiers)

Expression is a function of intention and intention emanates from your thought faculty.

There are things which couldn't be expressed by the words,when you've mastered certain lesson for more than 30 years.