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There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.
- Canetti, Elias
Language Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Language

1.
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
Bachelard, Gaston

2.
I wonder what language truck drivers are using, now that everyone is using theirs?
Pfizer, Sydney

3.
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
George Orwell

4.
The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.
Lewis Thomas

5.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
William Penn

6.
There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.
Canetti, Elias

7.
Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
Cato the Elder

8.
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

9.
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
Cooper, James F.

10.
The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture, and then finish up by rattling off a string of verbs by which their audience, for whom the stack had long since lost its coherence, would be totally nonplussed, are told, is an excellent example of linguistic recursion.
Hofstadter, Douglas

11.
The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world, a place it took to be so firmly set that, standing upon it, it could lift the rest of the world off its hinges and make itself master of it. To the extent that man has for long ages believed in the concepts and names of things as in aeternae veritates he has appropriated to himself that pride by which he raised himself above the animal: he really thought that in language he possessed knowledge of the world.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

12.
Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig

13.
My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren't only bombs and bullets -- no, they're little gifts, containing meanings!
Roth, Philip

14.
Language is an archeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.
Hoban, Russell

15.
Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words.
Aprocrypha

16.
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
Artaud, Antonin

17.
There is in every child a painstaking teacher, so skilful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of the world. The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
Montessori, Maria

18.
How many languages are there in the world? How about 5 billion! Each of us talks, listens, and thinks in his her own special language that has been shaped by our culture, experiences, profession, personality, mores and attitudes. The chances of us meeting someone else who talks the exact same language is pretty remote.

19.
It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be within the grasp of superficially educated people. It is not a natural growth, much as its proletarian writers would like to think so. But compared with it at its best, English has reached the Alexandrian stage of formalism and decay.
Chandler, Raymond

20.
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

21.
Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.
Joyce, James

22.
The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images.
Einstein, Albert

23.
When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.
Ricks, Christopher

24.
After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?
Hoban, Russell

25.
The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.
Tocqueville, Alexis De

26.
Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.
Rita Mae Brown

27.
If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals don't speak, it's because everything's perfect for them. If one day they start to speak, it will be because the world has lost a certain sort of perfection.
Baudrillard, Jean

28.
Words have a longer life than deeds.
Pindar

29.
The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.
Ammianus, Marcellinus

30.
Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
Heidegger, Martin

31.
You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.
Porter, Katherine Anne

32.
I do not mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is an language I do not understand.
Appleton, Sir Edward

33.
I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.
Tolkien, J. R.

34.
The living language is like a cowpath: it is the creation of the cows themselves, who, having created it, follow it or depart from it according to their whims or their needs. From daily use, the path undergoes change. A cow is under no obligation to stay
White, Elwyn Brooks

35.
And who in time knows whither we may vent the treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores this gain of our best glories shall be sent, 't unknowing Nations with our stores? What worlds in the yet unformed Occident may come refined with the accents that are ours?
Daniel, Samuel

36.
A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
Herman Melville

37.
Language is the inventory of human experience.
Lockhart, L. W.

38.
We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.
Whorf, Benjamin Lee

39.
We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
Washington, Booker T.

40.
We invent the world through language. The world occurs through language.
Pancoast, Mal

41.
It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.
Daumal, Rene

42.
The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things.
Vico, Giambattista

43.
Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.
Muller, Max

44.
An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.
Mann, Thomas

45.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
John Fletcher

46.
Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.
Calvino, Italo

47.
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests
Vidal, Gore

48.
Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.
Bogan, Louise

49.
Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
Samuel Johnson

50.
Language is the source of misunderstandings.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery


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