Invention Quote by Guy Deutscher Download Open image ““Language is mankind's greatest inventiom… that it was never invented.”” — Guy Deutscher ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Invention Language
Language is mankind’s greatest invention – except, of course, that it was never invented. — Guy Deutscher Copy Share Image
“Words are man's first and most grandiose invention. With language he created a whole new universe;” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“language is almost the most unique creation of humankind which defines itself; the alternative way of communication/comprehension/conception, yet overusing any invention, can cause Alienation.” — Fereidoon Yazdi Copy Share Image
“English is becoming a universal language such as humans have never had before.” — Minae Mizumura Copy Share Image
“Words are man’s first and most grandiose invention. With language he created a whole new universe; what wonder if he loved words and attributed… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Oftentimes, I feel that man invented language solely to satisfy his deep need to complain.” — Dale E. Basye Copy Share Image
“The only language all human beings understand is the language of humanity.” — Ken Bugul Copy Share Image
“There is a universal language, understood by everybody, but already forgotten. I am in search of that universal language, among other things.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“I have the strange feeling that man created language but now it creates us.” — Kiran Nagarkar Copy Share Image
If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence. — John Banville Copy Share Image
Language is one of the greatest gifts man has devised for himself. It ranks, alongside the discovery of fire and the wheel, as a… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
“The 20th century linguistic revolution is the recognition that language is not merely a device for communicating ideas about the world, but rather a… — Oliver Benjamin Copy Share Image
As strange as it may sound, our experience of a Chagall painting actually depends to some extent on whether our language has a word… — Guy Deutscher Copy Share Image
And there are also languages that divide nouns into much more specific genders. The African language Supyire from Mali has five genders: humans, big… — Guy Deutscher Copy Share Image
“The normal man of intelligence has something of a contempt for linguistic studies, convinced as he is nothing can well be more useless. Edward… — Guy Deutscher Copy Share Image
“we see in essence not with two eyes but with three: with the two eyes of the body and with the eye of the… — Guy Deutscher Copy Share Image
“And if Germans do have systematic minds, this is just as likely to be because their exceedingly erratic mother tongue has exhausted their brains'… — Guy Deutscher Copy Share Image
Language is mankind’s greatest invention – except, of course, that it was never invented. — Guy Deutscher Copy Share Image
“Anyone who has tried to learn a foreign language knows only too dearly that languages can be full of pointless irregularities that increase complexity… — Guy Deutscher Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, Nor age so eat up my invention, Nor fortune made such havoc of my… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
UKIP's success would never have happened without the invention of YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
The flood of photos sweeps away the dams of memory. Never before has a period known so little about itself. In the hands of… — Siegfried Kracauer Copy Share Image
Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first;… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention and I wouldn't… — George Soros Copy Share Image
“A car is one of the most interesting inventions, but driving is one of the most boring activities.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species- back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
