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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
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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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
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.: Will Durant (1885 - 1981)
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.: Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.: Henry Bolingbroke

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