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The rote system, like other systems of its age, made more of forms and symbols than of the things symbolized. To repeat the words correctly was everything, to understand the meaning nothing; and thus the spirit was sacrificed to the letter.

Herbert Spencer.

Words are men’s daughters, but God’s sons are things.

Johnson.

For words are wise men’s counters,—they do but reckon by them,—but they are the money of fools.

Hobbes.

It is only by the help of language (or some other equivalent set of signs) that we can think in the strict sense of the word; that is to say, consider things under their general or common aspects.

Sully.