Courses Quote by Gloria Steinem

Language does our thinking for us.

— Kenneth Burke

Language helps form the limits of our reality.

— Dale Spender

Knowing that language has done so much, we want to believe that it can do everything.

— Denis Donoghue

Language allows us to talk about the past and plan the future. We can teach children about things that are not present. And above…

— Jane Goodall

Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head

— Robert Smithson

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

There are ideas it will be easy to say in the future that we just don't have the language for now.

— Elif Batuman

I think language is the most important thing that human beings have ever accomplished, and the only thing that's really going to get us…

— Paul Bettany

Language is the medium of our thoughts.

— Frederick Lenz

Language is so inherent to humanity, so necessary for even basic thinking, that stories and poetry are available to anyone who can process language.

— Aleksandar Hemon

“There's certain structured language that will enable us to do all current impossibles. Unfortunately, it's not that we use nowadays. The good news is,…

— Toba Beta

Language: the one tool that enables us to grasp hold of our lives and transcend our fate by understanding it.

— Molly Haskell