<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # Language can reveal a pattern and also confine it.... > Language can reveal a pattern and also confine it. A good word makes experience more legible; a bad definition makes the definition harder to escape than the experience itself, which is why mature thinkers treat vocabulary as an instrument to examine rather than a cage to inhabit. **Source:** [[livestreams/Letting Go, Selection Bias, and the Life You Learn to See - Workbook|Letting Go, Selection Bias, and the Life You Learn to See]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Language can reveal a pattern and also confine it. A good word makes experience more legible; a bad definition makes the definition harder to escape than the experience itself, which is why mature thinkers treat vocabulary as an instrument to examine rather than a cage to inhabit.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-language-reveal-pattern-rather-cage-inhabit ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->