If language is intimately related to being human, then…

To know a language intimately is to understand the soul of those who speak it.

— Margaret Wander Bonanno

Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about…

— Howard Nemerov

I had never thought about what it might mean to be deaf, to be deprived of language, or to have a remarkable language (and…

— Oliver Sacks

I'm doing well in Toronto and I'm starting to study the language. It's right that way, to understand people, my teammates and the coach.

— Lorenzo Insigne

In the lives of individuals and societies, language is a factor of greater importance than any other. For the study of language to remain…

— Ferdinand de Saussure

The most difficult step in the study of language is the first step.

— Leonard Bloomfield

“The study of a language . . . allows its students to hear a people's 'interpretation (or misinterpretation) of messages from environment to human.'…

— Sy Montgomery

Whatever sphere of the human mind you may select for your special study, whether it be language, or religion, or mythology, or philosophy, whether…

— Anonymous

Words can sometimes be used to confuse, but it's up to the practitioners of the study of language to apply them for good and…

— Frank Luntz

Language leads a double life - and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence, you consult…

— Martin Amis

“But why must everything always have a practical application? I’d been such a diligent soldier for years—working, producing, never missing a deadline, taking care…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but if we…

— Spencer W. Kimball

“There are no greater or truer lords, gods, fathers, sons or holy spirits, than the humans. Humans are the highest beings on earth.”

— Abhijit Naskar

We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten…

— Rumi

The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of…

— Carl Schmitt