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To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.
Joseph Conrad1857–1924Under Western Eyes (1911), Pt. I
The true Enlightenment thinker, the true rationalist, never wants to talk anyone into anything. No, he does not even want to convince; all the time he is aware that he may be wrong.
Karl Popper1902–1994On Freedom (1958)
- Debate
- Wisdom
I ask for your indulgence when I march out quotations. This is the double syndrome of men who write for a living and men who are over forty. The young smoke pot — we inhale from our Bartlett’s.
Rod Serling1924–1975Speech at Moorpark College, Moorpark, California (December 3, 1968).
- Age
- Quotations
All Politeness is owing to Liberty. We polish one another, and rub off our Corners and rough Sides by a sort of amicable Collision. To restrain this, is inevitably to bring a Rust upon Mens Understandings.
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury1671–1713Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711), Vol. 1, pp. 39-40; “Sensus Communis”.
- Debate
- Liberty
For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.
Arthur Schopenhauer1788–1860“On Style”, The Art of Literature (trans. T. Bailey Saunders)
- Writing
If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.
Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951Philosophical Investigations (1953), Pt II, p. 223 of the 1968 English edition
- Animals
A single fact will often spoil an interesting argument.
WFWilliam Feather1889–1981Featherisms (2008)
- Debate
- Facts
He who knows does not speak; he who speaks does not know.
LLaozi580–501 BCTao Te Ching, Ch. 56
- Knowledge
These men are all talk; What is needed is action — action!
John Brown1800–1859Remarks at the New England Anti-Slavery Convention (May 1859), quoted in William Lloyd Garrison by Wendell and Francis Garrison.
In order to remain silent Da-sein must have something to say.
Martin Heidegger1889–1976Being and Time (1927), Stambaugh translation
Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.
José Saramago1922–2010The Cave (2000), p. 124
- Truth & Lies
A thousand words can’t
make the mark a single deed will leave.
Henrik Ibsen1828–1906Brand (1866), Act II
From symbiosis to parasitism is a short step. The word is now a virus.
William S. Burroughs1914–1997The Ticket That Exploded (1962)
It is a flat’ning Thought, that the more we have seen, the less we have to say.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge1772–1834Letter to James Gillman (9 October 1825)
- Experience
In painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter your manner.
John Ruskin1819–1900Modern Painters (1843-1860), Volume V, part VIII, chapter III (1860)
- Art