Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I have poetry in my soul but it's written in a language very few understand. — @efiosiugbore Copy Share Image
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
If a language is corruptible, then a constitution written in that language is corruptible. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“The articles read like radiator manuals—dry, formulaic, and partially written in another language. (A” — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don't know how to read. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own… — John Ray Copy Share Image
Written language must be considered as a particular psychic reality. The book is permanent; it is an object in your field of… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
I try to make the voice in my head come out onto the page. I try to make it much more conversational… — James Frey Copy Share Image
Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you're getting so many different points of view and directions and… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
In Japan, their written language doesn't translate to keyboards well. So they have problem communicating with computers, so they really feel that… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
“while they read and talked together, there was opened before them the great book wherein God has written, in the language of… — Harold Bell Wright Copy Share Image
The substance of the winds is too thin for human eyes, their written language is too difficult for human minds, and their… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Civilization could not exist until there was written language, because without written language no generation could bequeath to succeeding generations anything but… — Charlton Laird Copy Share Image
Education is a technology that tries to make up for what the human mind is innately bad at. Children don't have to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Here is how you know someone has had a good idea: Other people freely admit to their friends that said idea has… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
“In Western languages, reading and writing involve turning from left to right, and therefore exercise the brain’s left hemisphere. Written language, invented… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. It is essentially a written language, and it endeavors to exemplify… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The major accomplishment of analyzing illiteracy so far has been the listing of symptoms: the decrease in functional literacy; a general degradation… — Mihai Nadin Copy Share Image
“We are not told, or not told early enough so that it sinks in, that mathematics is a language, and that we… — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
Taste and smell are often the beggars among our five senses - they leave no written language and therefore no standards other… — Frank Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
One of the things I love about translation is it obliterates the self. When I'm trying to figure out what Tu Fu… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
“ Language as a Prison The Philippines did have a written language before the Spanish colonists arrived, contrary to what many of… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution. — Jean Berko Gleason Copy Share Image
Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great… — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
“Written language may have been conceived as a modest way of describing reality, bit it gradually became a powerful way to reshape… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The most important lesson in the writing trade is that any manuscript is improved if you cut away the fat. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reading or written language is a cultural invention that necessitated totally new connections among structures in the human brain underlying language, perception,… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
This is the power of images, the ambiguity. You are never completely sure of anything. With written language, it's more concrete. You… — Albert Serra Copy Share Image
