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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
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Best Quotes about Language

1.
The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.
Lewis Thomas

2.
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

3.
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

4.
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

5.
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

6.
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

7.
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

8.
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

9.
Language is the source of misunderstandings.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

10.
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 squirting out ink.
Orwell, George

11.
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

12.
Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
Moore, Marianne

13.
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
Abraham Lincoln

14.
Words have a longer life than deeds.
Pindar

15.
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

16.
No language is rude that can boast polite writers.
Beardsley, Aubrey

17.
Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
Tillich, Paul

18.
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
Charlemagne

19.
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Chomsky, Noam

20.
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

22.
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

23.
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

24.
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
Robert Benchley

25.
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

26.
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin they would never have found time to conquer the world.
Heine, Heinrich

27.
Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
Baudrillard, Jean

28.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Abigail Adams

29.
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

30.
The eyes have one language everywhere.
Herbert, George

31.
The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang.
Burgess, Anthony

32.
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
Cooper, James F.

33.
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

34.
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

35.
Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.
Muller, Max

36.
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

37.
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
Bachelard, Gaston

38.
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

39.
Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
Cato the Elder

40.
Words are the physicians of the mind diseased.
Aeschylus

41.
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

42.
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare

43.
Numbers constitute the only universal language.
West, Nathanael

44.
One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland --and no other.
Cioran, E. M.

45.
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

46.
Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.
Dworkin, Andrea

47.
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.

48.
I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse.
Charles V

49.
Language is an archeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.
Hoban, Russell

50.
If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a language. Which goes for film as well as prose, for documentary as well as autobiography. Use the wrong language, and you're dumb and blind.
Rushdie, Salman


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