Verbalism Quotes

#1. P68- when a word is deprived of its dimension of action,reflection automatically suffers as well and the word is changed into idle chatter, into verbalism,into an alienated and alienating "blah". It becomes an empty word that cant denounce the world.

Paulo Freire

#2. The failure in reading -the omnipresent verbalism- of those who have not been trained in the arts of grammar and logic shows how lack of such discipline results in slavery to words rather than mastery of them.

Mortimer J. Adler

#3. It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered.

Carroll O'Connor

#4. Every inch of progress is won in struggle.

Katha Pollitt

#5. A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.

Brendan Behan

#6. I invent by analogy. I thought, 'It's commonplace that you can mix colors, smear them together to get new emerging colors. Likewise, you can mix radio waves to get new frequencies.' So, I wondered, 'Why can't you mix sound to get new sounds?'

Woody Norris

#7. When we talk to ourselves, we're not talking to anyone very smart, because our outlook is very limited. But if we talk to God, we're talking to someone who knows everything. He knows what he promised in the beginning, and he knows exactly how to fulfill those promises no matter the circumstances.

Jim Cymbala

#8. I believe that people of my income group should pay more, and I explained why, but that won't necessarily lift overall wage levels.

William J. Clinton

#9. Time is a friend - perhaps the best one we shall ever have ... Time is a now - and there is only now. Memories look backward. Hope looks ahead. But there is in reality only now.

Margery Wilson

#10. Don't believe what you hear, don't believe what you see.
If you just close your eyes.
You can feel the enemy.

U2

#11. Storm is not your enemy; it does not even know whether you are there! Your enemy is your unpreparedness for it!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#12. The mind is moored to others;
the wasps orbit on little tethers of light.

Warren Heiti