Language Quotes

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People who are cognitively busy are also more likely to make selfish choices, use sexist language, and make superficial judgments in social situations. — Daniel Kahneman
People do not think in English or Chinese or Apache; they think in a language of thought. This language of thought probably looks a bit… — Steven Pinker
When a scientist considers all high-tech mental machinery needed to arrange words into ordinary sentences, prescriptive rules are, at best, inconsequential little decorations. The very… — Steven Pinker
In an age when other fantastically speedy, widespread media are triumphing, and running the risk of flattening all communication onto a single, homogenous surface, the… — Italo Calvino
Africa is one continent, one people, and one nation. The notion that in order to have a nation it is necessary for there to be… — Kwame Nkrumah
I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language — Paul Muldoon
Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one personâ€™s life. — Eavan Boland
Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier. — Louise Bogan
The Black Parade only has two songs left. Then you'll have to deal with the likes of My Chemical Romance. Personally...I think their language is… — Gerard Way
Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the… — Huston Smith
Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas… — Sergei Eisenstein
Sometimes during solitude I hear truth spoken with clarity and freshness; uncolored and untranslated it speaks from within myself in a language original but inarticulate,… — Hugh B. Brown
Prepare yourselves mentally. A mission requires a great deal of mental preparation. You must memorize missionary discussions, memorize scriptures, and oftentimes learn a new language.… — Ezra Taft Benson
If the seminary is too large, it ought to be divided into smaller communities with formators who are equipped really to accompany those in their… — Pope Francis
The other creatures with which we share this world have their rights too, but not speaking our language, they have no voice, no vote; it… — Roger Tory Peterson
There are no philosophical problems, there is only a suite of interconnected linguistic cul de sacs created by language's inability to reflect the truth. — Victor Pelevin
The soldier is on friendlier terms than other men with his stomach and intestines. Three-quarters of his vocabulary is derived from these regions, and they… — Erich Maria Remarque
The only philosophy is that of language, the only religion is that of the word. — Michel Serres
Smell and taste differentiate, whereas language, like sight and hearing, integrates. — Michel Serres
No man will treat with indifference the principle of race. It is the key to history, and why history is often so confused is that… — Benjamin Disraeli

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