Language Quote by Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Eventually, there's certain limit in telling bare fact through words. It ain't about diction constraints, but common ability to understand.”

— Toba Beta

“This is the difficulty with learning a language: not always knowing if words contain more than they say.”

— Joan Barfoot

“Only the educated stop to look for words - having enough to occasionally misplace them.”

— Derek B. Miller

“Language communicates in terms of what is already know; it chokes up when asked to deal with entirely unprecedented.”

— Vivek Shanbhag

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

— Kimberly Loskov

“Learning a language happens in stages, and the first breakthrough is a limited understanding. Somehow the words began to make sense; I could not…

— Vicki Archer

“Sometimes an understanding silence was better than a bunch of meaningless words.”

— Mia Sheridan

“Again, the troubling gap between word and meaning. My feeble language skills could not bear the weight of such a laden experience.”

— Alison Bechdel

“Language at its best is a useful tool, though by its very nature it artificially divides, reduces and over-simplifies. Hopefully,”

— Daniel M. Ingram

“Curious how these early linguistic abilities are so fragile, how unthinkingly and easily the brain lets them go.”

— William Boyd

“And it is hard, I imagine, for people who have not experienced this to understand the weight of that silence and how the absence…

— Daisy Hernandez

“The thing about language is that once you start getting analytical about it, you can't stop.”

— Greg Carlson