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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered

Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought. – William James

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We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. – William James

Category:
Wise Words
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William James
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them. – William James

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Truth
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William James
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For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me. – Winnie the Pooh (A.A. Milne)

Category:
Language

What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Language

Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. – Samuel Johnson

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Language

One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man. – John Berger

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Language

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