#babble

They only babble who practise not reflection. ↗

— Edward Young

#only #practise #reflection #who

We need to take big risks if we want to find out who we are, and what we were put on this planet for. ↗

— Meg Cabot

#love #meg-cabot #queen-of-babble #quotes #life

Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously. ↗

— Lance Morrow

#disconcerting #forget #goes #induce #last

Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble. ↗

— Criss Jami

#articulation #babble #babbling #cleverness #comprehension

When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of your soul for years, which you have, all that time, idiot-like, been saying over and over, you'll not talk about the joy of words. I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer. Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces? ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#speech

You want a happy romantic relationship? Don’t ruin it by getting married. ↗

— Meg Cabot

#romantic

Diet Coke does not contain nasty chemicals. It contains lovely and delicious carbonation, caffeine, and aspartame. What's unnatural about that? ↗

— Meg Cabot

#meg-cabot #queen-of-babble #diet

It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion. ↗

— Rene Daumal

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