Ancient greek Quote by Jennifer duBois

“Words were not just words, describing things a person could see. Even if most did not. Maybe they had to know a thing first,…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Language is one of the principal ways that we make the invisible visible and the silent heard. Think”

— Anne-Marie Slaughter

“It was rather like having been color-blind. She had seen some shadows but had not seen the clear ideas.”

— Jostein Gaarder

“There was never anything to be gained from observing what humans said to one another--language was just there to hide their thoughts.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Each had his own language for seeing, and that language created vision. We all inherit vision just as they did - two men who…

— Siri Hustvedt

“He had been taught that language was essentially inadequate, that it could never speak what was there, that it only spoke itself. He thought…

— A.S. Byatt

“He saw a world he had not seen before; a world made not for mastery but for living. Once seen it was a very…

— Don Berry

“All humans are coloured. Or else you wouldn't be able to see them.”

— Loesje

“There must be a language that doesn’t depend on words, the boy thought… He was learning lots of new things. Some of them were…

— Paulo Coelho

“The ancient Greeks believed that when you read aloud, it was actually the dead, borrowing your tongue, in order to speak again.”

— Ruth Ozeki

“Saint Paul said the invisible must be understood by the visible. That was not a Hebrew idea, it was Greek.”

— Edith Hamilton

Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot know that…

— Joyce Carol Oates