Through his powers of intellect, articulate language has…

“Another issue was language, the problem of expressing these themes in language and the problem of how much one can articulate in language.”

— Gao Xingjian

I suppose this is, in part, a cultural thing, but certainly in the U.K., I don't think we're particularly articulate in a language of…

— Emma D'Arcy

“A second theory agrees that our unique language evolved as a means of sharing information about the world. But the most important information that…

— Yuval Noah Harari

I don't think language could have evolved if it was the only distinctive trait. It goes hand in hand with our ability to develop…

— Steven Pinker

ASTONISHING, said Death. REALLY ASTONISHING. LET ME PUT FORWARD ANOTHER SUGGESTION: THAT YOU ARE NOTHING MORE THAN A LUCKY SPECIES OF APE THAT IS…

— Terry Pratchett

That's one of the ways language evolved, by some very obscure form becoming common usage. And I must say that I'm very intrigued by…

— Ricky Jay

“In fact, it could be said that our language evolved for the express purpose of allowing us to participate in that interaction with others.…

— Larry Gottlieb

Language would have evolved first as an internal object, a kind of "language of thought" (LOT), with externalisation (hence communication) an ancillary process. I…

— Noam Chomsky

I couldn't stand being identified by my sexuality, I retaliated by insisting that people regard me for my intellectual worth. My intellect became a…

— Leora Tanenbaum

The region belonging to the pure intellect is straitened: the imagination labours to extend its territories, to give it room. She sweeps across the…

— George MacDonald

... you are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything ...

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“There are many different kinds of knowledge. The way of the heart and spirit can guide us in a more trustworthy way than the…

— Lakota Sioux Buck Ghosthorse

Plato compared the intellect to a charioteer guiding the powerful horses of the passions, i.e., he gave it both the power of perception and…

— Raymond Cattell

Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“Your mind has the intellect to lift the world, your heart has the wisdom to better the world, and your soul has the genius…

— Matshona Dhliwayo