23 Misused Words Quotes

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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts. - Herbert Spencer quote

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts. β€” Herbert Spencer

Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure. β€” Tommy Lasorda

The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers. β€” Larry Flynt

You can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for dinner. β€” Larry Flynt

One should not interpret the word β€œRevolution” in its literal sense. Various meanings and significances are attributed to this word, according to the interests of those who use or misuse it. For the established agencies of exploitation it conjures up a feeling of blood stained horror. To the revolutionaries it is a sacred phrase. β€” Bhagat Singh

There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like 'communism,' words like 'fascism. β€” Jim Leach

Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully. β€” Margaret Heffernan

Coward is the most misused word in our society. β€” Doug Stanhope

The Word is the Magic that Humans possess and misuse of the Word is Black Magic... Be Impeccable with Your Word. β€” Miguel Angel Ruiz

The causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit. β€” Ludwig von Mises

Some would deny any legitimate use of the word God because it has been misused so much. Certainly it is the most burdened of all human words. Precisely for that reason it is the most imperishable and unavoidable. And how much weight has all erroneous talk about God's nature and works (although there never has been nor can be any such talk that is not erroneous) compared with the one truth that all men who have addressed God really meant him? For whoever pronounces the word God and really means Thou, addresses, no matter what his delusion, the true Thou of his life that cannot be restricted by any other and to whom he stands in a relationship that includes all others. β€” Martin Buber

Respect for the word - to employ it with scrupulous care and an incorruptible heartfelt love of truth - is essential if there is to be any growth in a society or in the human race.To misuse the word is to show contempt for man. It undermines the bridges and poisons the wells. It causes Man to regress down the long path of his evolution. β€” Dag Hammarskjold

Just because the character listens to an iPod and wears black nail polish, she's goth. That was just a misused word. β€” Rooney Mara

As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God's word to justify bigotry and persecution. β€” Joyce Meyer

Satan tries to counterfeit the work of God, and by doing this, he may deceive many. To make us lose hope, feel miserable like himself, and believe that we are beyond forgiveness, Satan might even misuse words from the scriptures that emphasize the justice of God in order to imply that there is no mercy. β€” Dieter F. Uchtdorf

It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them. β€” Georg C. Lichtenberg

An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice. β€” Agnes Repplier

Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer's reputation. β€” Agnes Repplier

It is astonishing how much the word infinitely is misused: everything is infinitely more beautiful, infinitely better, etc. The concept must have something pleasing about it, or its misuse could not have become so general. β€” Georg C. Lichtenberg

How you speak and the words you use tell much about the image you choose to portray. Use language to build and uplift those around you. Profane, vulgar, or crude language and inappropriate or off-color jokes are offensive to the Lord. Never misuse the name of God or Jesus Christ. The Lord said, "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain" (Ex. 20:7). β€” Thomas S. Monson

Noise is the typographical error and the poorly designed page...Ambiguity is noise. Redundancy is noise. Misuse of words is noise. Vagueness is noise. Jargon is noise. β€” William Zinsser

On matters beyond his ken a gentleman speaks with caution. If names are not right, words are misused. When words are misused, affairs go wrong. When affairs go wrong, courtesy and music droop, law and justice fail. And when law and justice fail them, a people can move neither hand nor foot. So a gentleman must be ready to put names in speech, to put words into deeds. A gentleman is nowise careless of words. β€” Confucius

Words are humanity's greatest natural resource, but most of us have trouble figuring out how to put them together. Words aren't cheap. They are very precious. They are like water, which gives life and growth and refreshment, but because it has always been abundant, we treat it cheaply. We waste it; we pollute it, and doctor it. Later we blame the quality of the water because we have misused it. β€” Katherine Paterson

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