Burden Quote by Irving Copi

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

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

— Molly Haskell

Language to me is a tool a very clumsy tool. And words are garden tools with which to till the soil of one's life.

— Joy Kogawa

The most fundamental feature of language is that it allows us to exchange thought. In conversations we connect the private world of our minds…

— Kumar Anupam

“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

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

Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate. Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to communicate them by words if…

— C. S. Lewis

Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are.

— Laura Schlessinger

Language is one of the fundamental principles of human understanding. It is the way we interact with each other and how we grasp the…

— Linus Torvalds

Language is an inadequate form of communication. If you've picked up an instrument, it's because you don't feel you are communicating sufficiently.

— Stephen Stills

Language is the tool of the tools

— Lev S. Vygotsky

Human communication above and beyond the words that we say is so nuanced. It makes it difficult to not only analyze the vocabulary you…

— Grant Imahara