Written Language Quotes

15 quotes by 14 authors

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language. — Alfred North Whitehead
Taste and smell are often the beggars among our five senses - they leave no written language and therefore no standards other than wholly personal… — Frank Schoonmaker
Written language must be considered as a particular psychic reality. The book is permanent; it is an object in your field of vision. It speaks… — Gaston Bachelard
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
The major accomplishment of analyzing illiteracy so far has been the listing of symptoms: the decrease in functional literacy; a general degradation of writing skills… — Mihai Nadin
Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. It is essentially a written language, and it endeavors to exemplify in its written… — Alfred North Whitehead
The earliest language was body language and, since this language is the language of questions, if we limit the questions, and if we only pay… — Paulo Freire
When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and space. The same… — Jamais Cascio
Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution. — Jean Berko Gleason
Civilization could not exist until there was written language, because without written language no generation could bequeath to succeeding generations anything but its simpler findings. — Charlton Laird
The substance of the winds is too thin for human eyes, their written language is too difficult for human minds, and their spoken language mostly… — John Muir
Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage. — Marilyn vos Savant
Here is how you know someone has had a good idea: Other people freely admit to their friends that said idea has changed their lives.… — Kevin Hearne
I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it they had no written language, no wheel as we know… — Ian Smith
A learned man is not one who uses complicated and difficult words in spoken and written language, but one who uses words that are easily… — Vikrant Parsai

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