Association Quote by Walter Pater

“The words we use are an unmistakable indication of our thought habits, tastes, ideals, and interests in life. In like manner, the habitual language…

— Grenville Kleiser

Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys,…

— Anonymous

A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture,…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Space and force pervade language. Many cognitive scientists (including me) have concluded from their research on language that a handful of concepts about places,…

— Steven Pinker

Language forms a kind of wealth, which all can make use of at once without causing any diminution of the store, and which thus…

— Auguste Comte

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

“Who will consider that no dictionary of a living tongue ever can be perfect, since, while it is hastening to publication, some words are…

— Samuel Johnson

“insights emerging from their primary language”

— Kelly M. Kapic

The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.

— Voltaire

The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion of diversified…

— George Edward Woodberry

The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers.

— Toni Morrison

“Every language is a vast pattern-system, different from others, in which are culturally ordained the forms and categories by which the personality not only…

— Takeo Doi