Benevolence Quote by Maria Edgeworth

It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an…

— Edward Sapir

English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Being that can be understood is language.

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

It seems to me that it is psyche in a way that has become occluded by the perverse development of language.

— Terence McKenna

Language is froth on the surface of thought.

— John McCarthy

Somethings can never be understood unless you feel them..

— Samuel Jebaraj

The writing of words can lead to all sorts of absurdities.

— Sherwood Anderson

“Words are anchors for sense experience, but the experience is not the reality, and the word is not the experience. Language is thus two…

— John Seymour

Thats the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.

— Galway Kinnell

How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite.

— Jack Gilbert

“Language exists to conceal true thought.”

— Charles Talleyrand

That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.

— Galway Kinnell