Education Quote by Saint Augustine

Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have.

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

Language uses us as much as we use language.

— Robin Lakoff

There is a kind of nonlinguistic thought going on which we are trying to represent in language, and we know that sometimes we fail.

— Noam Chomsky

We always translate the other person's language into our own language.

— Milton H. Erickson

The nature of language may determine what most people say, but I always speak my own meaning.

— Mason Cooley

We should constantly use the most common, little, easy words which our language affords.

— John Wesley

The very natural tendency to use terms derived from traditional grammar like verb, noun, adjective, passive voice, in describing languages outside of Indo-European is…

— Benjamin Lee Whorf

In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.

— Alfred Marshall

Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise - that which is…

— Anonymous

When we use a language, we should commit ourselves to knowing it, being able to read it, and writing it idiomatically.

— Ron Jeffries

Sometimes,because we use the same words,we assume we mean the same thing

— Ahdaf Soueif

You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls.

— Plato