Language Quote by Anonymous

“Language exists to conceal true thought.”

— Charles Talleyrand

“Language is one of the principal ways that we make the invisible visible and the silent heard. Think”

— Anne-Marie Slaughter

“There is a reciprocal influence between thought and language. What we think molds the words we use, and the words we use react upon…

— Grenville Kleiser

“It is within and through language that the human mind points to itself.”

— James N. Powell

“Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead. The shaping power…

— Stanley Fish

Language is froth on the surface of thought.

— John McCarthy

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

— George Eliot

“A language brings with it a mass of perceptions, clichés, judgements and inspirations.”

— Nicholas Ostler

Language is the medium of our thoughts.

— Frederick Lenz

Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.

— Bertrand Russell

“To perceive how language works, what pitfalls it conceals, what its possibilities are, is to comprehend a crucial aspect of the complicated business of…

— S.I. Hayakawa

“Language is the expression of ideas by means of speech-sounds combined into words. Words are combined into sentences, this combination answering to that of…

— Henry Sweet