Clarity Quote by Bernard Pivot

We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.

— Edward Sapir

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

— Lewis Thomas

Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience.

— Sonia Johnson

The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.

— Hippocrates

Human language... prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

— Lewis Thomas

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.

— George Steiner

Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about…

— Noam Chomsky

The most fundamental feature of language is that it allows us to exchange thought. In conversations we connect the private world of our minds…

— Kumar Anupam

A language that takes our emotions seriously and gives them real weight in our lives encourages us to think and be and act differently.

— Dorothee Solle

Some people find clarity threatening. They like muddle, confusion, obscurity. So when somebody does no more than speak clearly it sounds threatening.

— Richard Dawkins

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Language helps form the limits of our reality.

— Dale Spender