Invention Quote by Mason Cooley

I had always suspected language was quite limited in its ability to communicate the intricate mysteries of truth.

— Donald Miller

It's commonly assumed that the emergence of language was a key element of the great leap. We of course know very little about the…

— Noam Chomsky

Language is mankind’s greatest invention – except, of course, that it was never invented.

— Guy Deutscher

Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and…

— Joshua Foer

Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths.

— Abraham Lincoln

Language is a machine for making falsehoods.

— Iris Murdoch

I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from…

— Aleister Crowley

“Language as putative science. - The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Language is mankind's greatest inventiom… that it was never invented.”

— Guy Deutscher

“Six thousand years ago, there were no fully developed writing systems at all though there were, maybe, twenty thousand fully developed languages. (Yes, there…

— Mark David Ledbetter

The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any…

— Ferdinand de Saussure

Ever since the arrival of printing - thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put false opinions into people's minds…

— David Crystal