Language Quote by Helmut Walser Smith

“Find and interpreting the important words.”

— Mortimer J. Adler

“No new truths await discovery; everything has been given already. But it has all been scattered abroad and dispersed, misrepresented by analysis, dulled by…

— Isha Schwaller de Lubicz

“Explore many facets of the written word.”

— Anonymous

“We have an odd relationship with words. We learn a few when we are small, throughout our lives we collect others through education, conversation,…

— José Saramago

“When all is said and done scholars can do no more than find in nature what is already there.”

— Eugène Delacroix

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”

— Anonymous

“To know what we think, to be masters of our own meaning, will make a solid foundation for great and weighty thought.”

— Peirce Charles Sanders

“Understanding is like water flowing in a stream. Wisdom and knowledge are solid and can block our understanding”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

“The purpose of words is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grasped, the words are forgotten.”

— Jayne Bicker

“The major barrier to understanding is wishful thinking and following that which pleases one.”

— Idries Shah

“we must speak carefully so that we and our listeners do not get stuck in words or concepts. It is our duty to transcend…

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

“Rather than words comes the thought of high windows: The sun-comprehending glass, And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows Nothing, and is…

— Philip Larkin