Language Quote by Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“Language exists to conceal true thought.”

— Charles Talleyrand

“silence is God’s first language; everything else is a poor translation.”

— David G. Benner

“Language is one of the principal ways that we make the invisible visible and the silent heard. Think”

— Anne-Marie Slaughter

“There was never anything to be gained from observing what humans said to one another--language was just there to hide their thoughts.”

— Terry Pratchett

“When language arrives at its own edge, what it finds is not a positivity that contradicts it, but the void that will efface it.…

— Michel Foucault

“There can never be an absolutely final translation.”

— Robert M. Grant

“Only those who don't know the language of silence - express in words!” ”

— Ramana Pemmaraju

“All those languages, all that whispering, simply a vicarious way of preserving our identity for an uncertain length of time.”

— Roberto Bolaño

“The only language all human beings understand is the language of humanity.”

— Ken Bugul

“Words are traitors, for language tends to impose more logic than there is logic in life, and that the most precious in us is…

— Anonymous

“As long as human beings speak different languages, the need for translation will continue.”

— Nataly Kelly

“Every writer dreams of a perfect language. Every writer dreams of a language that obeys, that comes to heel. For some this language is…

— Helen Marshall