"A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious one's vocabulary and the greater one's awareness of fine distinctions and subtle nuances of meaning, the more fertile and precise is likely to be one's thinking. Knowledge of things and knowledge of the words for them grow together. If you do not know the words, you can hardly know the thing."
Henry Hazlitt (1894-1993), taken from his 1916 book Thinking as a Science. Per my humble opinion the quote is perhaps one of the most inspiring.
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