One overestimates the intellect of a person by Jean Paul
“One overestimates the intellect of a person whose idiom one only partially understands.”
Jean Paul
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Goethe Quote on Multilingualism and Home
“The German should learn all languages so that no stranger is uncomfortable for him at home, but he is at home everywhere abroad.”
Goethe
Double Standards – Quote by Noam Chomsky
“Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.”
Noam Chomsky
Language, Culture and Community – Quote by Noam Chomsky
“A language is not just words. It’s a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It’s all embodied in a language.”
Noam Chomsky
Imagination and Faith Are the Secrets of Creation – Neville Goddard
“Imagination and faith are the secrets of creation.”
Neville Goddard
Thomas Sowell Quote on Decision Authority
“The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.”
Thomas Sowell
“Poetry Is Not a Matter of Feelings” – Umberto Eco
“Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.”
Umberto Eco
Profound Contradictory Ideas – Neil Postman
“The point is that profound but contradictory ideas may exist side by side, if they are constructed from different materials and methods. and have different purposes. Each tells us something important about where we stand in the universe, and it is foolish to insist that they must despise each other.”
Neil Postman
Technology and Culture – Neil Postman
“It is inescapable that every culture must negotiate with technology, whether it does so intelligently or not. A bargain is struck in which technology giveth and technology taketh away.”
Neil Postman
Technological Progress and Consumer Perspective – Neil Postman
“We had learned how to invent things, and the question of why we invent things receded in importance. The idea that if something could be done it should be done was born in the nineteenth century. And along with it, there developed a profound belief in all the principles through which invention succeeds: objectivity, efficiency, expertise, standardization, measurement, and progress. It also came to be believed that the engine of technological progress worked most efficiently when people are conceived of not as children of God or even as citizens but as consumers-that is to say, as markets.”
Neil Postman