Adjectives Quote by Benjamin Lee Whorf

There are words that exist in one language and not in another language. It creates barriers that keep us from understanding each other. I'm…

— Jenova Chen

It is not often that we use language correctly; usually we use it incorrectly, though we understand each others meaning.

— Saint Augustine

To the extent that language forces experiences into categories it is a screen between reality and the human being. In a word, we pay…

— Abraham Maslow

The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Language is the source of misunderstandings.

— Anonymous

Words are the source of misunderstandings.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Always, in epochs when the languages and dialects of a culture have become outstripped by development of a practical sort, these languages become repetitive,…

— Doris Lessing

English general and singular terms, identity, quantification, and the whole bag of ontological tricks may be correlated with elements of the native language in…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

I guess I'm attracted to more archaic words because they can be imbued with more meaning, because their definition is elusive.

— Andrew Bird

There is a kind of nonlinguistic thought going on which we are trying to represent in language, and we know that sometimes we fail.

— Noam Chomsky

Were a language ever completely "grammatical" it would be a perfect engine of conceptual expression. Unfortunately, or luckily, no language is tyrannically consistent. All…

— Edward Sapir

The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.

— Galen