Language Quote by Philip Pullman

“It is not the reverence for words, but for their meaning that determines our deepness of comprehension of a given assertion about Nature.”

— Felix Alba-Juez

“Words are such terrible carriers of thought. They’re like the dead bodies of thoughts that the other side studies forensically.”

— K. Hippolite

“A mistake we make too often in science is thinking that having a name for something is the same as understanding it. A skeleton…

— Andrew Mayne

“words, for our brains, reality equals relevance.”

— David DiSalvo

Words belong to each other.

— Virginia Woolf

“but the story's interest lies in my struggle over semantics and the moral resonance of interpreting the meaning of a word.”

— Siri Hustvedt

“Beyond the feeble capacity of words. Defying the banality of description.”

— Penny Reid

“Words are like food. They contain information that either releases and liberates and creates possibilities and development or locks you into unhealthy patterns you…

— Thorbjörg Hafsteinsdottir

“Find and interpreting the important words.”

— Mortimer J. Adler

“To be such a complicated, mysterious piece of biological machinery, and more amazing still, to have the capacity to analyze that machinery!”

— Veronica Roth

“Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning.”

— Maya Angelou

“Semantics and labels could drive you crazy.”

— Bob Dylan