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Language is the inventory of human experience.
- Lockhart, L. W.
Language Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Language

1.
The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang.
Burgess, Anthony

2.
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
Weil, Simone

3.
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

4.
I wonder what language truck drivers are using, now that everyone is using theirs?
Pfizer, Sydney

5.
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

6.
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

7.
High thoughts must have high language.
Aristophanes

8.
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
Artaud, Antonin

9.
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.

10.
Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words.
Aprocrypha

11.
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

12.
Numbers constitute the only universal language.
West, Nathanael

13.
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

14.
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

15.
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

16.
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell

17.
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
Cooper, James F.

18.
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

19.
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

20.
Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
Cato the Elder

21.
One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland --and no other.
Cioran, E. M.

22.
Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.
Dworkin, Andrea

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

24.
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

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.
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

27.
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

28.
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
Bachelard, Gaston

29.
If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig

30.
Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.
Whorf, Benjamin Lee

31.
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

32.
To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up.
Orwell, George

33.
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

34.
Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
Heidegger, Martin

35.
Language is the pedigree of nations.
Johnson

36.
Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is the mark, the sign, not of his fall but of his original innocence. Through the Word we may regain the lost kingdom and recover powers we possessed in the far-distant past.
Paz, Octavio

37.
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

38.
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

39.
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

40.
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.

41.
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.

42.
Language is the inventory of human experience.
Lockhart, L. W.

43.
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

44.
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

45.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Abigail Adams

46.
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
Abraham Lincoln

47.
As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
Will, George F.

48.
Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.
Davy, Sir Humphrey

49.
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.

50.
Words have a longer life than deeds.
Pindar


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