Human Language Quotes

46 quotes by 36 authors

Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone; to squirrel something away… — Jay Griffiths
We do not realize how deeply our starting assumptions affect the way we go about looking for and interpreting the data we collect. We should… — Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the… — Umberto Eco
The God of the Hebrews is a God that human language, we're not even supposed to speak the holy name. We were told in the… — John Shelby Spong
Human language... prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand. — Lewis Thomas
To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriendâ€¦ I suppose I ought to have realize… — Robert Harris
Non-violence means dialogue, using our language, the human language. Dialogue means compromise; respecting each otherâ€™s rights; in the spirit of reconciliation there is a real… — Dalai Lama
Imagine a poem written with such enormous three-dimensional words that we had to invent a smaller word to reference each of the big ones; that… — N.D. Wilson
Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form. — Robert Bringhurst
One can choose to obsess over prescriptive rules, but they have no more to do with human language than the criteria for judging cats at… — Steven Pinker
The human language, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague. — Garth Stein
One of the most frustrating words in the human language, as far as I could tell, was love. So much meaning attached to this one… — Alexandra Adornetto
Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways. I am sensible of the fact that they are indescribable and inscrutable. But if mortal man will… — Mahatma Gandhi
The language of my love does not belong to human language, my human body does not touch the flesh of my love. — Paul Eluard
One of the most frustrating words in the human language, as far as I could tell, was love" - Bethany — Alexandra Adornetto
The present gives you the opportunity to dive deep into the water of life, or to fly high into the sky of life. But on… — Rajneesh
If human language, with its logic, is the way God has given us to understand the world, then the Torah must be understood in that… — David Novak
Evolution explains our biological evolution, but human beings are very unique creatures. As the Dobzhansky said, all animals are unique; humans are the uniquest. And… — Donald Johanson
Human language is open extendable and modifiable whereas animal language is not. — RMKATTA
The Human Language Leaves So Much That I Cannot Express; But Even Without Words, I Could Not Love You Any Less. — Ritu Ghatourey

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