"A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious one's vocabulary and the greater one's awareness of fine distinctions and subtle nuances of meaning, the more fertile and precise is likely to be one's thinking. Knowledge of things and knowledge of the words for them grow together. If you do not know the words, you can hardly know the thing."

-- Henry Hazlitt

#Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Vocabulary Quotes

“Pablo Casals has this simple and sincere attitude of knowing where it's at - of saying, "This is the way it is." If I thought I could carry some of that into my life, I would be happy.”
“These two opposed forms of social organization, the modern state and the market, have evolved together through recent centuries, and their mutual interactions have become increasingly crucial to the character and dynamics of international relations in our world.”

Source : Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.4, Princeton University Press
“If an accident happens in a plant, the aftermath will be unimaginable.”
“There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair.”
“Realise that your dreams of financial independence have already come true on the mental plane, by the time you desire them or become aware of them.”
“There are as many opinions as there are experts.”

Source : "Phormio". Book by Terence, 454, c.195-159 BC.
“How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.”
“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.”

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