Language Quotes

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If names are not correct, language will not be in accordance with the truth of things — Confucius
I bought a self learning record to learn Spanish. I turned it on and went to sleep; the record got stuck. The next day I… — Stephen Wright
Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes ... We cannot understand it if we do not first learn the… — Galileo Galilei
It is not difficult to write in Spanish; the Spanish language is a gift from the gods which we Spaniards take for granted. I take… — Camilo Jose Cela
If it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. Never clothe them in vulgar or shoddy attire. — Unknown Author
Languages are true analytical methods. Algebra, the means of expression which is the simplest, most exact and best adapted to its object, is both a… — Antoine Lavoisier
Words hurt more than swords — Proverb
Indeed, in many respects she was quite English and was an excellent example of the fact that we have really everything in common with America… — Oscar Wilde
The language of the mystics cannot meet the language of science and reason, but nevertheless in a world that craves experimental testimonies it will be… — Unknown Author
I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations — Samuel Johnson
Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one… — James Thurber
Another segment of society that has constructed a language of its own is business. ... [The businessman] is speaking a language that is familiar to… — Elwyn Brooks White
"Give us this day our daily bread" is probably the most perfectly constructed and useful sentence ever set down in the English language. — Unknown Author
I've always loved the flirtatious tango of consonants and vowels, the sturdy dependability of nouns and capricious whimsy of verbs, the strutting pageantry of the… — Dennis Miller
The only usefulness of a map or a language depends on the similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map-languages. — Alfred Korzybski
Language is clumsy, understanding is subjective, religion is obstructive. We must rise above these obstacles to achieve complete being. — Kate Miller
In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us,… — Theodore Roosevelt
The silent film was not only a vigorous popular art; it was a universal language - Esperanto for the eyes — Kevin Brownlow
Obstacles are necessary companions to expression, and we know that the positive element in language is not in its obstructiveness. Exclusively viewed from the side… — Rabindranath Tagore

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