Connections Quote by John Dewey

Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each…

— Anonymous

To know a language intimately is to understand the soul of those who speak it.

— Margaret Wander Bonanno

Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience.

— Sonia Johnson

Language is basic to all of our existences in this world. We depend on it.

— Garry Winogrand

Language exists only when it is listened to as well as spoken. The hearer is an indispensable partner.

— John Dewey

Being that can be understood is language.

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise - that which is…

— Anonymous

The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers.

— Toni Morrison

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 the principal tool with which we communicate; but when words are used carelessly or mistakenly, what was intended to advance mutual understanding…

— Irving Copi

Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression.

— Marshall McLuhan

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

— Laura Schlessinger