Words and Thoughts

Words, no matter whether they are vocalised and made into sounds or remain unspoken as thoughts, can cast almost hypnotic spell on you. You easily lose yourself in them, become hypnotised into implicitly believing that when you attach a word to something, you know what it is. You only covered up the mystery with a label. Everything, a bird, a tree, a stone, and certainly human beings is ultimately unknowable.

From "A New Earth" by one of my dear favourites, Eckhart Tolle. Quite Easily one of the most influential books I have read. Don't take my word for it, ask Oprah.