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Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say having double meaning.: Rosenstock-Huessy
We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language.: Johnson
Knowledge, like religion, must be "experienced" in order to be known.: Edwin P. Whipple
The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.: Henri Delacroix
Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place.: Field Marshall John French
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Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value.: Charles Simmons
It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn, and to arrange what we know.: Hannah More
What is not fully understood is not possessed.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

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