Characteristics Quote by Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

... two men could be just alike in all their dispositions to verbal behavior under all possible sensory stimulations, and yet themeanings or ideas…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

“Not only do men and women communicate differently but they think, feel, perceive, react, respond, love, need, and appreciate differently. They almost seem to…

— John Gray

No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men command fewer words than they have ideas to express, and language, as Jean Paul said, is a dictionary of faded metaphors.

— Walter Lippmann

Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of a larger meaning; he…

— Samuel Johnson

Man is a multi-sensorial being. Occasionally he verbalizes … and we must seriously examine the implications of the fact that man does not communicate…

— Ray Birdwhistell

No man's thoughts are new, but the style of their expression is the never-failing novelty which cheers and refreshes men. If we were to…

— Henry David Thoreau

Each man has his own way of being himself and of saying it so ultimately that he can't be denied.

— Henry Miller

“Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual. We never encounter a state where man is separated…

— Roland Barthes

My research suggests that men and women may speak different languages that they assume are the same, using similar words to encode disparate experiences…

— Carol Gilligan

If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the…

— Charles Horton Cooley

Words do not express thoughts very well; every thing immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also…

— Anonymous