Dorothea Dix Quotes

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

Words are but pictures of our thoughts.

I have never had a problem with people not being able to understand the words and the meanings in Titus.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

As a child, I learned hundreds of poems by heart, which I can recite to this day.

It's better to understand something than to memorize something.

Being that can be understood is language.

Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning.

I can never remember things I didn't understand in the first place.

Before any of it could make sense, it had to be heard.

The sum of a million facts is not the truth.

Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory

We cannot control the way people interpret our ideas or thoughts, but we can control the words and tones we choose to convey them. Peace is built on understanding, and wars are built on misunderstandings. Never underestimate the power of a single word, and never recklessly throw around words. One wrong word, or misinterpreted word, can change the meaning of an entire sentence - and even start a war. And one right word, or one kind word, can grant you the heavens and open doors.

Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.

The more intelligible a thing is, the more easily it is retained in the memory, and counterwise, the less intelligible it is, the more easily we forget it.

The meaning lies in the appropriation.

And those moments that I find mind busting. Meaning like there's a word that I find in a weird place. I love the process of going to the writer and working that out, because that's just basic communication.

Data isn't information, any more than fifty tons of cement is a skyscraper.

I do not understand this analogy," Mencheres muttered.

To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything.

Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on. "I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least--at least I mean what I say--that's the same thing, you know." "Not the same thing a bit!" said the Hatter. "You might just as well say that "I see what I eat" is the same thing as "I eat what I see"!

How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.

One of the hardest things in the world is to convey a meaning accurately from one mind to another.

In a world of more brilliance words don't mean anything.

The meaning of what is said is according to the motive for saying it: because things are not subject to speech, but speech to things. Therefore we should take account of the motive of the lawgiver, rather than of his very words.