Language Quote by Malcolm Gladwell

“Sometimes the most consequential moments in my life originate from a state of completely witless human auto-pilot.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

It is one of the aims of linguistics to define itself, to recognise what belongs within its domain. In those cases where it relies…

— Ferdinand de Saussure

“Our language has lost its ability to convey the spontaneous.”

— Jerzy Kosiński

There is a kind of nonlinguistic thought going on which we are trying to represent in language, and we know that sometimes we fail.

— Noam Chomsky

“Language, because it is imperfect, cannot encompass experience in its raw and primal condition. To verbalize emotion and action is to decrease their impact.”

— Cirilo F. Bautista

There are multiple descriptions of the same real world situation. The only justification for language is to empower yourself. If the verbal description you…

— Moshe Feldenkrais

“We lack the analogies’ was itself somehow deficient as a diagnosis, linguists burning up during re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere after encountering Area X.”

— Jeff VanderMeer

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

— William Boyd

“To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.”

— Socrates

The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“I have heard no word of my own language; I am rendered dumb.”

— David Malouf

Metaphor is embodied in language.

— Dennis Potter