Blind Quote by Oliver Sacks

Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to humans but none of which that are unique…

— Daniel Everett

“language is almost the most unique creation of humankind which defines itself; the alternative way of communication/comprehension/conception, yet overusing any invention, can cause Alienation.”

— Fereidoon Yazdi

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

— Guy Deutscher

The real technology -behind all our other technologies- is language. It actually creates the world our consciousness lives in.

— Andrei Codrescu

We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in…

— Adrienne Rich

Language helps form the limits of our reality.

— Dale Spender

We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in…

— Adrienne Rich

“Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead. The shaping power…

— Stanley Fish

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

— Anne-Marie Slaughter

Even today no computer can understand language as well as a three-year-old or see as well as a mouse.

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Language is basic to all of our existences in this world. We depend on it.

— Garry Winogrand

Language can't solve everything, of course, but it does carry our dreams and our ideas.

— Gloria Steinem