How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.
When you use words loosely, without care and consideration, you erode trust in yourself and in what you're saying. When you squander words, you diminish your power.
Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.
I think that words are often extraneous to what I do.
Words are illusions.
There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like 'communism,' words like 'fascism.'
Sometimes people complicate things by thinking too much about what someone might think of what they said or did.
So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
I've been really upset sometimes when I've been misquoted. And it's the one thing they use in big print. Or it's taken out of context. Thoughts are fluid and words are sticky. That's the thing.