Language Quote by Anne-Marie Slaughter

“Language exists to conceal true thought.”

— Charles Talleyrand

“Language ist not just a neutral vessel for conveying thoughts but is an invisible mold that actually shapes the way people think and perceive.”

— Anonymous

“I believe language is infinitely malleable, a live being in our hands, which deserves our great respect and curiosity”

— Brian Kiteley

“Language gives a fuller image, which is all the better for beings vague. After all, the true seeing is within”

— George Eliot

“Of the thousand experiences we have, we find language for one at most and even this one merely by chance and without the care…

— Pascal Mercier

“There was never anything to be gained from observing what humans said to one another--language was just there to hide their thoughts.”

— Terry Pratchett

“And it is hard, I imagine, for people who have not experienced this to understand the weight of that silence and how the absence…

— Daisy Hernandez

“We are the creature of language, and through language we affirm ourselves, we find out about the world, including ourselves, through words, and we…

— Robert Coles

“Those who first acquired language and tried to think the human situation were utterly overwhelmed. They could cope only by imagining that there were…

— Don Cupitt

Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

— Abraham Maslow

“The language of nature is silence.”

— Bryant McGill

“Now if we rid our minds of the idea that our language is the translation or cipher of an original text, we shall see…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty