Language Quotes
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 It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.
Charles Caleb ColtonCharles Caleb Colton Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.
Neil deGrasse TysonNeil deGrasse Tyson The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau Our book becomes more clear, and nature seems to speak to us in language so like our own, that we easily comprehend it.
Adam SedgwickAdam Sedgwick Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question.
Eric HofferEric Hoffer The meaning of a word is its use in the language.
Ludwig WittgensteinLudwig Wittgenstein A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
Charles DarwinCharles Darwin By stretching language we’ll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.
Jean GenetJean Genet Language speaks and not the human.
Martin HeideggerMartin Heidegger The language of truth is simple.
EuripidesEuripides