Demand Quote by David James Duncan

“Language, because it is imperfect, cannot encompass experience in its raw and primal condition. To verbalize emotion and action is to decrease their impact.”

— Cirilo F. Bautista

“Where body language conflicts with the words that are being said, the body language will usually be the more 'truthful' in the sense of…

— Glen Wilson

Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.

— Jeanette Winterson

Language achieves soul only when it's applied as a tool, used by those who imbue it with what they have had the courage and…

— Vanna Bonta

Yet human experience and the practice of communication have shown throughout the ages that definitions are an illusion, like having a speech defect and…

— Jose Saramago

“Sometimes the signs and signals of the non-language speaking world are not very clear. Then we have to walk in trust, move forward step…

— Elaine Seiler

It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an…

— Edward Sapir

“To perceive how language works, what pitfalls it conceals, what its possibilities are, is to comprehend a crucial aspect of the complicated business of…

— S.I. Hayakawa

For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.

— Aldous Huxley

Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human.

— Karl Marx

There are things that can only be conveyed through words.

— Kreyzii

“You don’t realise how language actually interferes with communication until you don’t have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense.”

— Lily King