General Semantics Quotes
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General Semantics Quotes
“The rich are poor without the poor's acknowledgment of money.”
“Marriage converts a player into a polygamist.”
“A statement can be truthful when it is said or written, but untruthful when it is heard or read.”
“Experiencing is the only way that leads to the highest degree of knowing or understanding.”
“Looking but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye.”
“One demonstration is equivalent to one hundred explanations.”
“He who says that someone isn’t himself is a victim of statistics.”
“We misunderstand the messages behind some of our most favourite songs.”
“Our description of what we are seeing ought to be begun with the word 'apparently'.”
“It is a sign of intellectual maturity to always crawl to conclusions.”
“A thing named, misnamed, unnamed, or renamed is still itself.”
“The definition of 'Employment' by an employer, and, that by an employee, are seldom the same.”
“That statues are motionless would be true only if the earth were the universe.”
“Faeces by any other name would smell as gross”
“You cannot say something about something without revealing something about yourself.”
“A shadow does not need the object to which it belongs to move for it to move.”