Assume Quote by Kenneth L. Pike

“Every language is a vast pattern-system, different from others, in which are culturally ordained the forms and categories by which the personality not only…

— Takeo Doi

Man is multiplied by the number of languages he possesses and speaks.

— Jose Rizal

“Language is complex, yet easy, and amazing.”

— Kimberly Loskov

The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.

— Joan Didion

The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.

— Henri Delacroix

Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Linguists are no different from any other people who spend more than nineteen hours a day pondering the complexities of grammar and its relationship…

— Ronald Langacker

Language [can] be expressed . . . by movements of the hands and face just as well as by the small, sound-generating movements of…

— Harlan Lane

Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to humans but none of which that are unique…

— Daniel Everett

Language develops by interacting with other people talking to you.

— Jean Berko Gleason

The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its…

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

“Nelson Mandela once said, “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to…

— Trevor Noah