Chiefs Quote by Galen

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

— Hippocrates

The chief merit of language is clearness.

— Galen

The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.

— Hippocrates

Language is basic to all of our existences in this world. We depend on it.

— Garry Winogrand

In language clarity is everything.

— Confucius

If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless.

— Charles II of England

Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about…

— Noam Chomsky

Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

To the extent that language forces experiences into categories it is a screen between reality and the human being. In a word, we pay…

— Abraham Maslow

Although there is no substitute for merit in writing, clarity comes closest to being one.

— E. B. White

The human language, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague.

— Garth Stein

Language is the most elementary aspect to our humanness, probably. In addition to that, it's the embodiment, it's the apotheosis of the human experience,…

— George Carlin