We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

Words are intermediary between thought and things. We express ourselves really not through words, which are only signs, but through what they signify - through things.

In our office, we have a whiteboard with all of our ideas and things we want to write on it - great ideas we have that we haven't had the time to get around to yet.