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Language is the pedigree of nations.
- Johnson
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Best Quotes about Language

1.
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

2.
High thoughts must have high language.
Aristophanes

3.
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.

4.
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

5.
Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.
Man, Paul De

6.
Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

7.
The problems of society will also be the problems of the predominant language of that society. It is the carrier of its perceptions, its attitudes, and its goals, for through it, the speakers absorb entrenched attitudes. The guilt of English then must be recognized and appreciated before its continued use can be advocated.
Ndebele, Njabulo

8.
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

9.
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.
William Shakespeare

10.
We invent the world through language. The world occurs through language.
Pancoast, Mal

11.
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

12.
Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.
Muller, Max

13.
We might hypothetically possess ourselves of every technological resource on the North American continent, but as long as our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be revolutionary but not transformative.
Rich, Adrienne

14.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
John Fletcher

15.
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
Weil, Simone

16.
Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints --the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk --we think we're using the language, but language is doing the thinking, we're its slavish agents.
Mathews, Harry

17.
A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
Herman Melville

18.
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
Sir Winston Churchill

19.
If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig

20.
Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They advance from particular images to general terms. Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society is philosophical, that of a half-civilized people is poetical.
Macaulay, Thomas B.

21.
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell

22.
Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes of genius, which, unless thus fixed and arrested, might have been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning.
Trench, Richard Chevenix

23.
I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.
Fanon, Frantz

24.
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
Barthes, Roland

25.
The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
Walcott, Derek

26.
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

27.
A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
Saussure, Ferdinand De

28.
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare

29.
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

30.
There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?
Ehrenreich, Barbara

31.
Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.
Whitman, Walt

32.
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin they would never have found time to conquer the world.
Heine, Heinrich

33.
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

34.
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
Cooper, James F.

35.
Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all freely consent.
Saussure, Ferdinand De

36.
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
Artaud, Antonin

38.
Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.
Whorf, Benjamin Lee

39.
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
Robert Benchley

40.
Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
Cato the Elder

41.
I understand a fury in your words, But not the words.
William Shakespeare

42.
Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.
Steiner, George

43.
The eyes have one language everywhere.
Herbert, George

44.
Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide --that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life --are alike forbidden.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell

45.
Language is the pedigree of nations.
Johnson

46.
Numbers constitute the only universal language.
West, Nathanael

47.
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

48.
Language is an archeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.
Hoban, Russell

49.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Abigail Adams

50.
Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.
Woolf, Virginia


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