...transparent and unchanging; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

...we would perceive a somewhat different world.

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

...Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it a morning to be good on?"

- Gandalf

...a great many fewer disputes in the world, if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only; and not for things themselves.

- John Locke

...are ruined by too definite a knowledge of their meaning.

- Aline Kilmer

...as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

- Joseph Conrad

...not only to express thoughts, but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.

- Bertrand Russell

...are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.

- J.B.S. Haldane

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