Agency Quote by Steven Pinker

“Words have a force far beyond that of ink stains on pages or spoken sounds... Whether written or spoken, language found in forbidden books…

— Daniel Harms

“Linguists have long debated the links between language, culture, and cognition. The theory of linguistic relativity posits that language itself—the specific tongue that we…

— Emily Anthes

There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of…

— Washington Irving

Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.

— Samuel Johnson

Language is memory and metaphor.

— Storm Jameson

“We can never dispense with language and the other symbol systems; for it is by means of them, and only by their means, that…

— Aldous Huxley

There are multiple descriptions of the same real world situation. The only justification for language is to empower yourself. If the verbal description you…

— Moshe Feldenkrais

Much more of the brain is devoted to movement than to language. Language is only a little thing sitting on top of this huge…

— Oliver Sacks

Language is inexorably tied to power and understanding. And power and understanding are the roots of magic. Just the act of writing something down…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Language is a systematic verbal symbolism.

— RMKATTA

It is impossible to dissociate language from science or science from language, because every natural science always involves three things: the sequence of phenomena…

— Anonymous

The language itself is what gets me interested in writing. It's weird to me that words exist. Never a dull moment with words. They're…

— Aaron Belz