Connections Quote by Leonard Mlodinow

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

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability…

— James Earl Jones

Language is the medium of our thoughts.

— Frederick Lenz

Language is our body and our breath, our world and our thought, our perception and even out unconscious.

— Philippe Sollers

I think when we engage in language we are engaging in something that is specifically and primally human.

— ZZ Packer

If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying human nature.

— Charlton Laird

The human need for language is not simply for the transmission of meaning, it is at the same time listening to and affirming a…

— Gao Xingjian

Language does our thinking for us.

— Kenneth Burke

“Language is deeply entwined in the intellectual development of humanity itself, it accompanies the latter upon every step of its localized progression or regression;…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by…

— Jacques Ellul

Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about…

— Noam Chomsky

For centuries, we in the West have thought of ourselves as rational animals whose mental capacities transcend our bodily nature. In this traditional view…

— George Lakoff