Language Quotes

Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness.

Chinese language tends to be quick, economical. To know what people are saying, you always need to know what the context is.

Language was invented to ask questions.

Abstraction is an esoteric language.

I grew up with a very quick temper, and the language of violence is a language that I'm very familiar and comfortable with.

Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's.

I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England

Language may die at the hands of the schoolman: it is regenerated by the poets

Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.

Betray mean terror of ridicule, thou shalt find fools enough to mock thee; but answer thou their language with contempt, and the scoffers will lick thy feet.

The notion that anything is gained by fixing a language in a groove is cherished only by pedants.

Language does for intelligence what the wheel does for the feet and the body. It enables them to move from thing to thing with greater ease and speed and ever less involvement.

The form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal.

Learning another language is like becoming another person.

Music, the word we use in our everyday language, is nothing less than the picture of our Beloved. It is because music is the picture of our Beloved that we love music.

Added to the difficulty of learning to speak the language was the greater difficulty of finding terms to express the ideas which the missionary had come halfway round the world to convey.

The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don't see why any reader should put up with it.

I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place.

The language of [Catholic] mysticism - its repeated attempts to lay consciousness itself bare and speak all the intensely opposing yet interconnected parts of it that cannot be spoken.

Explore the idea of what the language that women speak would really be like if no one were there to correct them.

NVC is founded on language and communication skills that strengthen our ability to remain human, even under trying conditions.

I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the common language, but only after identifying myself with it.

I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.

We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.

When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.

Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.

We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.

I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter.

I would not rob you of your food or your clothes or your umbrella, but if I caught your German out I would take it. But I don't study any more,- I have given it up.

The only philosophy is that of language, the only religion is that of the word.

Music is the unspoken language that can convey feelings more accurately than talking ever could.

If you ask me, music is the language of memory

Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.

The spirit of logical analysis should in practice blend with the practical pressure for the adoption of some form of international language, but it should not allow itself to be stampeded by it.

A cliché is like a coin that has been handled too much. Once language has been overly handled, it no longer leaves a clear imprint.

The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear a clunky sentence, I try to write up to the poetry that I have recited beforehand.

All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.

Language develops by interacting with other people talking to you.

We have this enormous connection to the living world that is reflected in our language...

Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.

Painting is... a richer language than words... Painting operates through signs which are not abstract and incorporeal like words. The signs of painting are much closer to the objects themselves.

Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.

Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.

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How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language.

Teach your children or your grandchildren Chinese. It is going to be the most important language of their lifetimes.

Language is one of the greatest gifts man has devised for himself. It ranks, alongside the discovery of fire and the wheel, as a major influence in making modern man what he is today.

From purest wells of English undefiled None deeper drank than he, the New World's Child, Who in the language of their farm field spoke The wit and wisdom of New England folk.

The language of translation ought never to attract attention to itself.