Believe Quote by P.D. Ouspensky

“The root difficulty in all cases was the state of being blind and deaf to words-- not seeing the words for the prose. Being…

— Jacques Barzun

“One of the most common platitudes we heard was that “words failed.” But words were not failing us at all. It was not true…

— Aleksandar Hemon

As a child, it was really hard because I'd be thrown into a new school and have to make new friends, or I'd sit…

— Alexander Dreymon

We speculated what it was like before we got language skills. When we humans had our first thought, most likely we didnt know what…

— Jane Wagner

Added to the difficulty of learning to speak the language was the greater difficulty of finding terms to express the ideas which the missionary…

— Helen Barrett Montgomery

A new language always reflects a new point of view, and the gradual unconscious popularization of new words, or of old words used in…

— Allan Bloom

“Living like that utterly convinced me of the extreme limitations of language. I was just a child then, so I had only an intuitive…

— Banana Yoshimoto

Added to the difficulty of learning to speak the language was the greater difficulty of finding terms to express the ideas which the missionary…

— Helen Barrett Montgomery

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

— Donald Miller

When we turn around and come face to face with our destiny, we discover that spoken words are not enough. I know so many…

— Anonymous

I felt like I had reached the end of a period of life, where the work was jumping about and pushing something new every…

— Nigel Cooke

“Our language has lost its ability to convey the spontaneous.”

— Jerzy Kosiński