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Half the controversies in the world are verbal ones; and could they be brought to a plain issue they would be brought to a prompt termination. Parties engaged in them would then perceive either that in substance they agreed together, or that their difference was one of first principles. We need not dispute, we need not prove, we need but define. At all events, let us, if we can, do this first of all and then see who are left for us to dispute; what is left for us to prove.: Cardinal John Newman
He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.: Johann Kaspar Lavater
One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.: Chazal
By words the mind is winged.: Aristophanes (450 BC - 388 BC)
To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.: South
Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be.: Author Unknown
You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God.: Author Unknown

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