Language Quote by Takeo Doi

“To perceive how language works, what pitfalls it conceals, what its possibilities are, is to comprehend a crucial aspect of the complicated business of…

— S.I. Hayakawa

For centuries, we in the West have thought of ourselves as rational animals whose mental capacities transcend our bodily nature. In this traditional view…

— George Lakoff

There are very deep and restrictive principles that determine the nature of human language and are rooted in the specific character of the human…

— Noam Chomsky

“A language brings with it a mass of perceptions, clichés, judgements and inspirations.”

— Nicholas Ostler

“We are the creature of language, and through language we affirm ourselves, we find out about the world, including ourselves, through words, and we…

— Robert Coles

“Language could be used as an instrument of control, a way of establishing hierarchies that suggest one set of people is better or more…

— David Crow

“Language is the gateway of the mind and a bridge that connects us to other human beings. Language enables a person to share their…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are.

— Laura Schlessinger

“Language is deeply entwined in the intellectual development of humanity itself, it accompanies the latter upon every step of its localized progression or regression;…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Language is a personality as well. People are different when they speak different languages.

— David Bezmozgis

“I'm amazed with language, it's so complex, yet so simple...everything can be influenced by it, and everything can influence it.”

— Kimberly Loskov

What gives it its human character is that the individual through language addresses himself in the role of the others in the group and…

— Anonymous