Language Quote by Harry G. Frankfurt

“...every language without exception has some, but not all, of the characteristic features of lies--if no other, then at least the feature simply of…

— Harry G. Franfurt

“Language stops being a tool; it becomes a map, not to truth but to the person who wrote it.”

— Arabella Sveinsdottir

“What the survival of threatened languages means, perhaps, is the endurance of dozens, hundreds, thousands of subtly different notions of truth.”

— Mark Abley

“Every lie contains truth, and every truth contains a lie”

— Aki Shimizu

“Lie, illusion, deception, she said--was that it truly, the universal language we all speak?”

— Cynthia Ozick

“Language is evidently one of the principle instruments or helps of thought; and any imperfection in the instrument, or in the mode of employing…

— John Stuart Mill

“You lie enough and all of a sudden it’s like lying is the language you speak and your first language starts to disappear.”

— J.C. Lillis

“The mind lies using words. The heart has no words with which to lie. It conveys only truth.”

— Jeanne Watatsuki Houston

“Words are steps along a path: the important thing is to get where you're going. You can play by all manner of rules, ...…

— Mark Lawrence

For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that…

— Audre Lorde

“Moreover, liars write less than they speak.”

— Edouard Levé

“Words can lie. Words can deceive and delude and conceal and avoid. But the things you do, how you move, how you touch, those…

— Jasinda Wilder