Language Quotes
Discover the best quotes about Language. This collection showcases wisdom and insights on Language from various authors and personalities.
The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes.
Language is artificial, but our feelings are natural, inner, and universal. There are many languages, but feelings are the same for everyone. We can only describe it in different ways. A poet tries to sing the song of these feelings in different tunes with different music mixing with the inner emotions of the reader.
As long as one is ruled by illusion, one's thinking process is also illusory and that is nothing but misery. In Gnanis' [the enlightened one's] language, there is no such thing as happiness or unhappiness.
Language, as well as the faculty of speech, was the immediate gift of God.
Great men, like nature, use simple language.
Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is capable to express the ultimate.
England and America are two countries divided by a common language.
The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
In the depths of the ocean is our capital.
It may be that in private moments the language at Buckingham Palace is quite similar to that of a rugby changing room.
A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one thinks them.
The only thing I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you $249 for the right to speak it.
Spoken language clearly differentiates Homo sapiens from all other creatures. None but humankind produces a complex spoken language, a medium for communication and a medium for introspective reflection.
It seems inconceivable that a species of human could possess fully modern language and not be fully modern in all other ways, too. For this reason, the evolution of language is widely judged to be the culminating event in the emergence of humanity as we know it today.
The language of Mexicans springs from abysmal extremes of power and impotence, domination and resentment.
A great deal of Roosevelt's almost magical talent for persuading and manipulating the American people lay in his ability to state his thoughts in simple, homely phrases, in the language of the working neighborhood where visitors sat in the kitchen, with puppies frolicking under the stove, husbands wearing working clothes and wives their one-dollar house-dresses.
Animal language is a contagious expression of mood effecting communication between social partners.
A child, when it begins to speak, learns what it is that it knows.
European languages must not be considered diamonds displayed under a glass ball, dazzling us with their brilliance.