Language Quotes

5358 quotes by 3185 authors

No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it. — Judy Chicago
All around the world there are 230 countries, and among those people I can speak 5 languages. Nevertheless, I can't find the exact word to… — Joo Won
It seems a miracle that young children easily learn the language of any environment into which they were born. The generative approach to grammar, pioneered… — Niels Kaj Jerne
My cat speaks sign language with her tail. — Robert A. M. Stern
Music is the soul of language. — Max Heindel
As ideas are preserved and communicated by means of words, it necessarily follows that we cannot improve the language of any science, without at the… — Antoine Lavoisier
Chemistry has the same quickening and suggestive influence upon the algebraist as a visit to the Royal Academy, or the old masters may be supposed… — James Joseph Sylvester
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak;… — William P. Alford
The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise? — Hugo Ball
Horses in the Book of Mormon would be another. You have relatively few mentions of horses, but there are some, and we don't know exactly… — Daniel C. Peterson
Abstraction is an esoteric language. — Eric Fischl
I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us… — Morris Graves
Color is a language, like music. — Vlady Kibalchich Russakov
The language of art is celestial in origin and can only be understood by the chosen. — El Greco
Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered… — Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
Human rights without responsibility, without a sense of decency, a sense of compassion, is not good enough for a society to flourish... We need to… — Tu Weiming
Chemistry is a gibberish of Latin and German; but in Leibig's hands it becomes a powerful language. — Jacob Grimm
For strictly scientific or technological purposes all this is irrelevant. On a pragmatic view, as on a religious view, theory and concepts are held in… — Bertram Brockhouse
We live in a world where unfortunately the distinction between true and false appears to become increasingly blurred by manipulation of facts, by exploitation of… — Arne Tiselius

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