181 Quotes About Vocabulary

By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

The more words you know, the more clearly and powerfully you will think...and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.

It is our duty and our joy to communicate our hearts to each other. Words assist us in this task.

Lethargy. It's a word I know, because it's in one of my father's favorite expressions. Lethargy breeds lethargy. It means the more you lie around doing nothing, the more you want to lie around doing nothing. Your limbs and your mind feel so heavy that it becomes a major effort just to lift your arm to channel surf.

By the time they are 4 years old, children from poor families have heard 32 million fewer words than children with professional parents.

In the vocabulary of certain radical theorists contradictions are given the status of some deadly disease to which their opponents alone can succumb. But contradictions are the very stuff of life. If there had been a little dash of contradiction among the Gadarene swine some of them might have been saved from drowning.

The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values.

Plurality of languages: [...] It is crucial 1. that there are many languages and that they differ not only in vocabulary, but also in grammar, and so in mode of thought and 2. that all languages are learnable.