Language Quotes

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Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it… — Yao Ming
French was my first language. — Bob Cousy
Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention either to subjects… — Arthur Schopenhauer
It is the language of nature to which one has to listen. — Vincent Van Gogh
In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language. — Henry David Thoreau
Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture. They must, that is, be… — Thomas Kuhn
We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness… — Julia Cameron
Just remember, the language of gesture is more effective than the spoken word. Body language is very powerful. Bring the balance within you and project… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
One sacrifice has to be made: never use harsh or rude language. Foul language you can use; foul language doesn't hurt. Foul language is forgivable… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Rhythm is our universal mother tongue. It's the language of the soul. — Gabrielle Roth
The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions. — Italo Calvino
An author accepting language's invitation to dance steps onto the floor of his her sensibility-charged consciousness and begins to move instinctively--even if with much dread--in… — Aberjhani
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about… — Werner Heisenberg
Science is complex and chilling. The mathematical language of science is understood by very few. The vistas it presents are scary-an enormous universe ruled by… — Isaac Asimov
Somewhere in the arrangement of this world there seems to be a great concern about giving us delight, which shows that, in the universe, over… — Rabindranath Tagore
The universe seems to me infinitely strange and foreign. At such a moment I gaze upon it with a mixture of anguish and euphoria; separate… — Eugene Ionesco
[W]hen Galileo discovered he could use the tools of mathematics and mechanics to understand the motion of celestial bodies, he felt, in the words of… — William J. Clinton
It is often said that experiments should be made without preconceived ideas. That is impossible. Not only would it make every experiment fruitless, but even… — Henri Poincare
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas. — Samuel Johnson
In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard as an office secretary in… — Sugata Mitra

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