35 Quotes About General-semantics

The most pitiful thing we can do is try to describe life.

Poetry is the art of hiding the inadequacy of language.

How the seen looks depends on how the seer sees.

You cannot say something about something without revealing something about yourself.

Our description of what we are seeing ought to be begun with the word 'apparently'.

The definition of 'Employment' by an employer, and, that by an employee, are seldom the same.

A statement can be truthful when it is said or written, but untruthful when it is heard or read.

Reading, seeing, and hearing happen way more often than understanding.

Looking but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye.