Our Language Quotes

100 Our Language quotes by 88 unique authors

What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness. — Louise Leakey
No two of us learn our language alike, nor, in a sense, does any finish learning it while he lives. — Willard Van Orman Quine
We live in a world where our social system is old, our language is old, the way we acquire goods and services is outdated, our… — Jacque Fresco
The majority of the people of the world today are unsane, not insane, unsane meaning having been exposed to methods of evaluation that have long… — Jacque Fresco
The arts make vivid the fact that words do not, in their literal form or number, exhaust what we can know. The limits of our… — Elliot W. Eisner
The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition. — Elliot W. Eisner
You know, when it was done originally, they always had to fight to keep it going at the end of each season. Now, The Odd… — Brett Somers
By a symbol I do not mean an allegory or a sign, but an image that describes in the best possible way the dimly discerned… — Carl Jung
So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make… — Godfrey Reggio
Hopelessness may be the saddest word in our language. Despair is the enemy of our souls. It can paralyze us, halt our progress, and cause… — Dwan J. Young
Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke. — Edmund Waller
MISCREANT, n. A person of the highest degree of unworth. Etymologically, the word means unbeliever, and its present signification may be regarded as theology's noblest… — Ambrose Bierce
They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties. — Bernard Pivot
Charles Bernstein's pairs of jingles of 'public discourse' are 'simultaneous double narrative / the space between's the other narrative/as if they're opposite.' In the space… — Unknown Author
We can move no faster than the evolution of our language, and this is certainly part of what the psychedelics are about: they force the… — Terence McKenna
All our language about the future ... is like a set of signposts pointing into a bright mist ... the New Testament image of the… — N. T. Wright
How different things might be if, rather than saying "I think I'm in love," we were saying "I've connected with someone in a way that… — Bell Hooks
I find labels "liberal" and "conservative" of little meaning. Our language has become perverted along with the thoughts of many of us. — Studs Terkel
The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book,' a new phrase in our language - is also… — Art Spiegelman
The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it… — Robert Fitzgerald
We have this enormous connection to the living world that is reflected in our language. — Jean Berko Gleason
There is no word in our language which has been so much misused and prostituted as the word love. It has been preached by those… — Erich Fromm
We celebrate Thanksgiving along with the rest of America, maybe in different ways and for different reasons. Despite everything that's happened to us since we… — Wilma Mankiller
We should never lower our dignity by lowering our language. — Ted E. Brewerton
It has always been my thought that the most important single ingredient to success in athletics or life is discipline. I have many times felt… — Bobby Knight

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