Ambiguity Quote by Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Use language what you will, you can never say anything but what you are.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I think maybe the most frustrating thing in the world is to have something to say but not know how to put it into…

— Alexandra Bracken

“You don't realize how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense.…

— Lily King

“What does it matter if you can speak two or more languages if you have nothing original to say in any language?”

— Jarod Kintz

“Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I’m not a linguist, but do you ever think there’s something wrong with the things we do and don’t have words for?”

— Yoon Ha Lee

“We usually say things we mean when we speak without thinking; they just tend to get us in more trouble because they lack the…

— Christin Lovell

“There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.”

— Bjarne Stroustrup

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

— Joan Barfoot

There are times in life when language fails us, when everything that needs to be said can be expressed only by saying nothing at…

— Simon Van Booy

“A person can speak many languages and still struggle to say what they feel.”

— Yurii Ivchenko

“Precision about language can be really, really annoying. It can make you miss the point of what the other person is saying altogether.”

— Dana Reinhardt