He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language. — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language. — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
In any language it is a struggle to make a sentence say exactly what you mean. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Through the act of translation we break out of linguistic confinement and reach many other communities. — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
“I love that word: us. It's the best, most simple, most incredible two letters ever put together.” — Melissa C. Walker Copy Share Image
“we must speak carefully so that we and our listeners do not get stuck in words or concepts. It is our duty… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Everything is now moving fast so communication has to be fast as well. But the tragedy is that we have attained this… — Javed Akhtar Copy Share Image
“When you speak, your words echo only across the room or down the hall. but when you write, your words echo down… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
When it comes to remaking my own films in the English language, I can only imagine that it is a very boring… — Park Chan-wook Copy Share Image
“There is always a point of view in language, but we are apt to notice it only when it is not one… — Deborah Cameron Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a Russophile. I speak the language and studied the nation's literature and history in college. — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
With the wild nature as ally and teacher we see not through two eyes but through the many eyes of intuition. With… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiques . . . noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“Surrounded by people speaking a different language, our family started talking to each other. We drew into a very small tribe (population:… — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
Money, after all, is an abstract artifact, like language - merely symbolized by the paper or coin or whatever. If you can… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Everyone knows the idea of moving to another country is really hard, but when you're actually in the situation - and you… — Lotic Copy Share Image
We should assume that we all have a lot in common. Speak as if our views are the only sensible ones. This… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
I often recall these words when I am writing, and I think to myself, “It’s true. There aren’t any new words. Our… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Dying, we tell ourselves, is like going to sleep. This figure of speech occurs very commonly in everyday thought and language, as… — Raymond Moody Copy Share Image
If you are a thinker, you will change the language. You will not use words the way others do. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
You may have a very good case to argue in court, but wrongly selected words could put you in jail. — Ace Kid Copy Share Image
I'm learning all the right vocabulary words - 'You're right, I'm wrong.' — George Stephanopoulos Copy Share Image
Words themselves are innocuous; it is the consensus that gives them true power. — Gloria Naylor Copy Share Image
There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
“you must pick your words very carefully and be sure to say just what you intend to say.” — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
I pay a lot of attention to whitespace. I pay a lot of attention to the rhythm of words together. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
It's the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness. — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
If French is no longer the language of a power, it can be the language of a counter power. — Lionel Jospin Copy Share Image
Change is not a four letter word...but often your reaction to it is! — Jeffrey Gitomer Copy Share Image
“words don't have power to HURT us, Unless, they are said by the person who mean a lot to us…!!!!!” — Aqsa Qureshi Copy Share Image
