Doe Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Language is like drinking from one's own reflection in still water. We only take from it what we are at the time.

— Simon Van Booy

There must be a language that doesn't depend on words.

— Paulo Coelho

Keep in mind that a language is both a map of the world and its own world, with its own shadowlands and crevasses -…

— David Foster Wallace

Language can do what it can’t say.

— William Stafford

The act of language or the act of denying language carries its own heaviness.

— Leni Zumas

There must be a language that doesn't depend on words. And that must be feeling.

— Anonymous

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at…

— Roland Barthes

Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead.

— Stanley Fish

Speaking two languages fluently makes each language not so important.

— Arca

Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.

— Steven Pinker

No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes. It will in fact better serve other purposes, philological or historical, when…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

A common language doesn't soothe dry tongues and thirsty throats.

— Sanjaya Baru