Caught Quote by Ludwig Wittgenstein

The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many…

— H. L. Mencken

I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way — by rote or something.…

— Richard P. Feynman

Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.

— Thomas Paine

People need meanings to everything. People want you to intellectualize every choice you make.

— Juliana Hatfield

Language is handy, but we humans have social and emotional connections that transcend words and are communicated - and understood - without conscious thought.

— Leonard Mlodinow

It's freeing, to think that there's always an aspect of us outside the grasp of speech, the common stuff of language.

— Mark Doty

The important thing is that when you get into some stretches of inconsistency that we don't overreact on the one hand and try to…

— Rick Carlisle

It is the things we think we know - because they are so elementary or because they surround us - that often present the…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Language corresponds only to itself. Intellectuals suffer from that. And once you begin to question language, you cannot stop at studying linguistics. Analytical philosophy…

— Martin Walser

“We lack the analogies’ was itself somehow deficient as a diagnosis, linguists burning up during re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere after encountering Area X.”

— Jeff VanderMeer

People are so... seem so chaotic internally, but being filtered through some form, like making a record, sort of filters it down into something…

— Elliott Smith

The common people do not accurately adapt their thoughts to objects; nor, secondly, do they accurately adapt their words to their thoughts; they do…

— Samuel Johnson