Language Quotes

The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.

J Michael Straczynski

I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.

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

Humphrey Davy

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education -- sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

E. B. White

Language achieves soul only when it's applied as a tool, used by those who imbue it with what they have had the courage and honesty to perceive and feel.

Vanna Bonta

Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.

Benjamin Lee Whorf

Those who know nothing of foreign languages,knows nothing of their own.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

Charlemagne

The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.

Marcellinus Ammianus

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

Stephen King

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

T S Eliot

Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms

Penelope Lively

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.

Claude Levi-Strauss

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

William Hazlitt

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.

Elizabeth Bowen

Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.

Benjamin Lee Whorf

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

Robert Burchfield

Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Marshall McLuhan

Language is the light of the mind

John Stuart Mill

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth

George Carlin

There is in a word, in a verb, something sacred which forbids us from using it recklessly. To handle a language cunningly is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

Charles Baudelaire

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