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- Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.
- Edward Thorndike
- In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
- Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
- 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
- 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)
- Tsze-Kung asked, saying, 'Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?" The Master said, "Is not Reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
- It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Wit is brushwood; judgment timber; the one gives the greatest flame, and the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire.
- Overlung
- 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
- Water is the only drink for a wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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