Language Quote by Edward Sapir

No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are…

— Amy Tan

People who grow up with two or more languages understand that each can express certain aspects of reality better than the other.

— Siri Hustvedt

A different language is a different vision of life.

— Federico Fellini

There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common. It's called a monolingual…

— Daniel Everett

A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

— Joseph Brodsky

Keep in mind that a language is both a map of the world and its own world, with its own shadowlands and crevasses -…

— David Foster Wallace

The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself.

— Noam Chomsky

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

— Desmond Tutu

Numbers constitute the only universal language.

— Nathanael West

For everything outside the phenomenal world, language can only be used allusively, but never even approximately in a comparative way, since, corresponding as it…

— Franz Kafka

Speaking two languages fluently makes each language not so important.

— Arca

If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein