Hands Quote by Lewis Thomas

Human language... prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

— Lewis Thomas

Language helps form the limits of our reality.

— Dale Spender

Language forces us to perceive the world as man presents it to us.

— Julia Penelope

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 can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

— Abraham Maslow

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

— ZZ Packer

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

We're very concerned with language and how language works. We're trying to engage people rather than dictate how they should be thinking.

— Neville Brody

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

— Alice Walker

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

— Noam Chomsky

We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth.

— Tom Robbins

There are very deep and restrictive principles that determine the nature of human language and are rooted in the specific character of the human…

— Noam Chomsky