Humans Quote by Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Download Open image “God gave humans language so they could conceal their thoughts from one another.” — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Humans Language Philosophy of Mind
God has to speak to each person in their own language, in their own idioms. Take Spanish, Chinese. You can express the same thought,… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it. — Walter Lang Copy Share Image
Evolution teaches us the original purpose of language was to ritualize men's threats and curses, his spells to compel the gods; communication came later. — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
Some people use language to express thought, some to conceal thought, and others instead of thoughts. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
“It has always been a mystery to me how Adam, Eve, and the serpent were taught the same language. Where did they get it?… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“There was never anything to be gained from observing what humans said to one another--language was just there to hide their thoughts.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
What I have been taught, I have forgotten; what I know, I have guessed. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
Those who have not lived in the eighteenth century, in the years before the Revolution do not know the sweetness of living and cannot… — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
Beauty, devoid of grace, is a mere hook without the bait. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
I found there a country with thirty-two religions and only one sauce. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
There is one person that is wiser than anybody, and that is everybody. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence. — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our… — Kenan Malik Copy Share Image
Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
