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Language is the source of misunderstandings.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Best Quotes about Language

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

2.
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

3.
Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
Moore, Marianne

4.
Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
Kraus, Karl

5.
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

6.
Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
Heidegger, Martin

7.
I understand a fury in your words, But not the words.
William Shakespeare

8.
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare

9.
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

10.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
John Fletcher

11.
Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men's language. Of course women learn it. We're not dumb. If you can tell Margaret Thatcher from Ronald Reagan, or Indira Gandhi from General Somoza, by anything they say, tell me how. This is a man's world, so it talks a man's language.
Guin, Ursula K. Le

12.
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
William Butler Yeats

13.
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
Artaud, Antonin

14.
The word of man is the most durable of all material.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

15.
Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.
Davy, Sir Humphrey

16.
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.
William Shakespeare

17.
Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.
Whorf, Benjamin Lee

18.
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

19.
As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
Will, George F.

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

21.
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

22.
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

23.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Abigail Adams

24.
Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law. Because, in other words, the powerful don't play; they mean to keep that power, and those who are the powerless (you and me) better shape up --mimic ape suck --in the very image of the powerful, or the powerful will destroy you --you and our children.
Jordan, June

25.
Any language is necessarily a finite system applied with different degrees of creativity to an infinite variety of situations, and most of the words and phrases we use are prefabricated in the sense that we don't coin new ones every time we speak.
Lodge, David

26.
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.

27.
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
Robert Benchley

28.
I wonder what language truck drivers are using, now that everyone is using theirs?
Pfizer, Sydney

29.
We invent the world through language. The world occurs through language.
Pancoast, Mal

30.
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

31.
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

32.
Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.
Muller, Max

33.
Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say have double meaning.
Huessy, Rosenstock

34.
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

35.
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

36.
Drawing on my fine command of the language, I said nothing.
Benchley, Robert

37.
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

38.
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
Cooper, James F.

39.
If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig

40.
Words have a longer life than deeds.
Pindar

41.
Poetry is the language of feeling.
Winter, W.

42.
One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland --and no other.
Cioran, E. M.

43.
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

44.
Language is an archeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.
Hoban, Russell

45.
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.

46.
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

47.
A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
Herman Melville

48.
Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.
Rita Mae Brown

49.
The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.
Burchfield, Robert

50.
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


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