Language Quotes
Language transcends us and yet we speak.
Maurice Merleau PontyMaurice Merleau Ponty The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve;.
Abraham VergheseAbraham Verghese In our evolution language has been the greatest single contribution to our understanding and misunderstanding
Rasheed OgunlaruRasheed Ogunlaru Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
Ezra PoundEzra Pound Laughter is the language of the soul.
Pablo NerudaPablo Neruda The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.
Vera WangVera Wang Comics is a language. It’s a language most people understand intuitively.
Bill GriffithBill Griffith The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
Michel FoucaultMichel Foucault My body tells all the secrets my mind likes to keep. Only those who are fluent in my language will know the words I long to speak.
Z. ElliottZ. Elliott If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.
ConfuciusConfucius Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
J. K. RowlingJ. K. Rowling It was the pure Language of the World. It required no explanation, just as the universe needs none as it travels through endless time.
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
Ezra PoundEzra Pound