Joe

“Language does control how you think, and if you don’t have a word for it, you won’t think of it.”
― Charles Wohlforth, The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change

“students were savvy enough to know that forcing a teacher to shout at the class would be a sure sign that they had got to them, and, therefore, raising your voice in class would just make kids laugh at you. The discipline system there had clear sanctions, which did not include taking a kid out and shouting at them.”
― Phil Beadle, Why are you shouting at us?: The Dos and Don'ts of Behaviour Management

“Confrontation leads to action. Avoidance leads to inaction.”
― Colleen Hoover, All Your Perfects

“Intuitive minds, on the contrary, being thus accustomed to judge at a single glance, are so astonished when they are presented with propositions of which they understand nothing, and the way to which is through definitions and axioms so sterile, and which they are not accustomed to see thus in detail, that they are repelled and disheartened.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pascal's Pensées