Language Quote by Daisy Whitney

Without context words and actions have no meaning at all

— Gregory Bateson

In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.

— Alfred Marshall

Sometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost to view.

— Brian Ferneyhough

Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each…

— Anonymous

Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.

— Rumi

Words belong to each other.

— Virginia Woolf

Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves

— Johann Georg Hamann

Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.

— Alfred North Whitehead

It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.

— Agnes Martin

There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.

— Richard Flanagan

Words are a lens to focus one's mind.

— Ayn Rand

Language usage always has a political context.

— Jackson Katz