This one made me want to think and laugh at the same moment:
"These days, there is more doubt than benefit though."
As for myself, I have found that my own words have to mean something to me first before they could mean something to others. These days the idea of speaking is just that - speaking. It lacks what was not a few years ago called 'weighing your words'.
People speak first and justify it later and say that we are learning in the process. This is all good but for the tiny detail that, the only time this 'learning' comes in play is when we are forced to confront our own words. I think the it is a pretty good assumption to make that a lot of spoken words do not carry the conviction of the speaker and the words are the only thing that we can judge in some circumstances.
It is an interesting phrase I think especially as for most these days, words are feathers in the wind.
absolutely. a mistake is not a mistake until it is known as a mistake. The action that led to it felt pretty right at the time.