Quotes
Quotes about Language
We are forced, by the very nature of language, to generalize
I recognized myself, somewhat sadly, as being a bookish man, ears pricking at the mention of a book unknown in an unknown language, any book, any language
Gangrene? The ghastliest word, I had often thought, in the English language; it insolently connoted life
Kindess, a language deaf people can hear and blind can see.
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind.
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
It often shows an excellent command of language to say nothing.
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
When the eyes say one thing and the tongue another, the practiced person relies on the language of the first.
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
Vague and insignificant forms of speech, and abuse of language have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard and misapplied words, with little or no meaning, have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance, and hindrance of true knowledge.
Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation cares about its own identity.
Dictionary: A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.
Language is an archeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
Everyday language is a part of the human organism and is no less complicated than it.
To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty of nature. If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in.
A living language is like a man suffering incessantly from small haemorrhages, and what it needs above all else is constant transactions of new blood from other tongues. The day the gates go up, that day it begins to die.
Language is not neutral. It is not merely a vehicle which carries ideas. It is itself a shaper of ideas.
Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.
Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.
Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.
