Language Quote by Kane Faucher

Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The brain is... an enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern, always a meaningful pattern, though never an abiding one.”

— Anonymous

“Schemata are our necessary instruments for making the surfaces of what we read connect significantly with the background knowledge that is wittheld from immediate…

— E. D. Hirsch, Jr

A limited vocabulary, but one with which you can make numerous combinations, is better than thirty thousand words that only hamper the action of…

— Paul Valery

Swiftly the brain becomes an enchanted loom, where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern-always a meaningful pattern-though never an abiding one.

— Anonymous

Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations.Imagine the brain,…

— Diane Ackerman

I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or 'literary' diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large range, but the words…

— James Agee

“Words are like physical objects around us that appear to be continuous and whole but are in fact composed of particles too small for…

— Christina Meldrum

Not only do words infect, egotize, narcotize, and paralyze, but they enter into and colour the minutest cells of the brain. . . .

— Rudyard Kipling

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

— John Henry Newman

“If we could look into the human mind and read its operating system, we would find something like this.” Four words appeared in giant…

— Dan Brown

“The human brain has billions of neurons and hundreds of billions of interconnections. It can process more than two million bits of information per…

— Ben Carson