Vocabulary Quotes

“The powerful intellect leashed by an impoverished vocabulary is a myth. Without a vocabulary, a language, the intellect cannot develop.”

“A good vocabulary is not acquired by reading books written according to some notion of the vocabulary of one's age group. It comes from reading books above one.”

“A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious one's vocabulary and the greater one's awareness of fine distinctions and subtle nuances of meaning, the more fertile and precise is likely to be one's thinking. Knowledge of things and knowledge of the words for them grow together. If you do not know the words, you can hardly know the thing.”

“Sound is the vocabulary of nature.”

“Vocabulary for aggravation is large. Vocabulary for transcendence is elusive.”

“Few activities are as delightful as learning new vocabulary.”

“My only defense is the acquisition of vocabulary.”

“Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.”

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

“Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday.”