Communication Quote by Richard Leakey

Humans are crude linguists from the moment of birth - and perhaps even in the womb - to the extent at least that we…

— Jeffrey Kluger

If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying human nature.

— Charlton Laird

When younger, I thought one of the particulars of being "Homo sapiens" was to communicate. I have not learned not to, though I am…

— Nikki Giovanni

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

— Noam Chomsky

Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do…

— Daniel Everett

Human beings are human beings whether they speak or not.

— Max von Sydow

Language as a real thing is not imitation either of sounds or colors or emotions it is an intellectual recreation and there is nopossible…

— Gertrude Stein

Human language is mythological and metaphorical by nature.

— W. H. Auden

Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.

— Roland Barthes

I think the use of language is a very important means by which this species, because of its biological nature, creates a kind of…

— Noam Chomsky

The basic agreement between human beings, indeed what makes them human and makes them social, is language.

— Monique Wittig

Scientists attach great importance to the human capacity for spoken language. But we also have a parallel track of nonverbal communication, which may reveal…

— Leonard Mlodinow