It is the same with written words; they seem to talk to you as if they were intelligent, but if you ask them anything about what they say, from a desire to be i

It is the same with written words; they seem to talk to you as if they were intelligent, but if you ask them anything about what they say, from a desire to be instructed, they go on telling you just the same thing forever. ~ Socrates, in Plato's Phaedrus