Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Language. Share them with your friends on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, and let the world be inspired by their powerful messages. Here are the Top 100 Language Quotes And Sayings by 93 Authors including Willard Van Orman Quine,Alice Walker,Tomas Transtromer,Susanne Katherina Langer,Kenneth Burke for you to enjoy and share.
Language is a social art. -- Willard Van Orman Quine
Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us. -- Alice Walker
The language marches in step with the executioners.
Therefore we must get a new language. -- Tomas Transtromer
Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind. -- Susanne Katherina Langer
Language does our thinking for us. -- Kenneth Burke
Languages are not strangers to on another. -- Walter Benjamin
Language is a finding-place not a hiding place. -- Jeanette Winterson
Language is me, in a way. Really, I feel it. -- Orhan Pamuk
Language conveys a certain power. It is one of the instruments of domination. It is carefully guarded by the superior people because it is one of the means through which they conserve their supremacy. -- Sheila Rowbotham
Language is not neutral. It is not merely a vehicle which carries ideas. It is itself a shaper of ideas. -- Dale Spender
Different languages cut the world into different slices. -- Jean Berko Gleason
Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about. -- Benjamin Lee Whorf
Language is not the lowborn, gawky servant of thought and feeling; it is need, thought, feeling, and perception itself. The shape of sentences, the song in its syllables, the rhythm of its movement, is the movement of the imagination. -- William H Gass
A feast of languages -- William Shakespeare
Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective. -- Kenneth L. Pike
We do things with language, produce effects with language, and we do things to language, but language is also the thing that we do. Language is a name for our doing: both "what" we do (the name for the action that we characteristically perform) and that which we effect, the act and its consequences. -- Judith Butler
Cultures are virtual realities made of language. -- Terence Mckenna
My language is the sum total of myself. -- Charles Sanders Peirce
A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It's all embodied in a language. -- Noam Chomsky
Language forms a kind of wealth, which all can make use of at once without causing any diminution of the store, and which thus admits a complete community of enjoyment; for all, freely participating in the general treasure, unconsciously aid in its preservation. -- Auguste Comte
Language is where the tongue fails itself over & over again. -- Christopher Soto
And language, ( ... ) is not just another faculty or skill, it is what makes thought possible, what seperates thought from nonthought, what seperates the human from the non human. -- Oliver Sacks
We think in one language and feel in another. -- Marty Rubin
Watch your mouth: The language we use creates the reality we experience. -- Michael Hyatt
Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home. -- Martin Heidegger
Language is a labyrinth of paths. You approach from one side and know your way about; you approach the same place from another side and no longer know your way about. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Being that can be understood is language. -- Hans-Georg Gadamer
The language we use is extremely powerful. It is the frame through which we perceive and describe ourselves and our picture of the world. -- Iben Dissing Sandahl
Language is the work of man, of a being from whom permanence and stability can not be derived. -- Samuel Johnson
The language itself, whether you speak it or not, whether you love it or hate it, is like some bewitchment or seduction from the past, drifting across the country down the centuries, subtly affecting the nations sensibilities even when its meaning is forgotten. -- Jan Morris
It takes more than language to know what language can know. -- Barry Allen
Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations. -- Adrienne Rich
There is an extraordinary power in the possession of a language. -- Frantz Fanon
Language as the technology of human extension, whose powers of division and separation we know so well, may have been the "Tower of Babel" by which men sought to scale the highest heavens. Today computers hold out the promise of a means of instant tr -- Marshall Mcluhan
The diversity of language alienates man from man -- Saint Augustine
Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think. -- Holly Near
A language Older Than Words -- Derrick Jensen
I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth. -- Amy Tan
Language is a virus from outer space -- William S. Burroughs
Language is the means by which we negotiate our relationship with time. -- Romesh Gunesekera
Language is not only a means of speech and thought, it is a bridge with the significant function of bringing the wealth of the past to our day and conveying today's heritage and our new compositions to the future. -- M. Fethullah Gulen
[Language allows you] to implant a thought from your mind directly into someone else's mind, and they can attempt to do the same to you, without either of you having to perform surgery. -- Mark Pagel
I am under the spell of language, which has ruled me since I was 10. -- V.s. Pritchett
Language disguises thought. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Language is capable of becoming the objective repository of vast accumulations of meaning and experience, which it can then preserve in time and transmit to following generations. -- Peter L. Berger
Unintelligible language is a lantern without a light. -- Samuel Johnson
ENGLISH: the ultimate body language. If not spoken by the English. -- G.s. Oldman
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true. -- Salman Rushdie
A language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols by means of which a social group cooperates. -- Bernard Bloch
Language is evidently one of the principle instruments or helps of thought; and any imperfection in the instrument, or in the mode of employing it, is confessedly liable, still more than in almost any other art, to confuse and impede the process, and destroy all ground of confidence in the result. -- John Stuart Mill
Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the congenitally blind, to see with another person's eyes. -- Oliver Sacks
Language, a great poem in and of itself, is all around us. We live in the lap of enormous wonder, but how rarely do most of us look up and smile in gratitude and pleasure? -- Mark Edmundson
Life doesn't exist inside language: too bad for me. -- Kathy Acker
Language helps form the limits of our reality. -- Dale Spender
A language is a means of communication and should be lived rather than taught. -- Benny Lewis
Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs. -- Nelson Mandela
Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing. -- Claude Levi-Strauss
The gift of language is the single human trait that marks us all genetically, setting us apart from the rest of life. -- Lewis Thomas
Language has been mobilised and sent into battle; it directs the human carnage of conflict with its enunciation of emotion, stimulating souls to abandon peace. -- Daniel S. Fletcher
Verbing weirds language. -- Bill Watterson
Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other. -- Jean De La Bruyere
There is your audience. There is the language. There are the words that they use. -- Eugene Schwartz
I'm very interested in language because it reflects our obsessions and ways of conceptualising the world. -- Steven Pinker
In the lives of individuals and societies, language is a factor of greater importance than any other. For the study of language to remain solely the business of a handful of specialists would be a quite unacceptable state of affairs. -- Ferdinand De Saussure
A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies
that have moulded them -- Jawaharlal Nehru
Language is the spiritual exhalation of the nation. -- Wilhelm Von Humboldt
Language is one of the thin walls humanity has built up over centuries against its own bestial and destructive impulses ... -- Storm Jameson
To perceive how language works, what pitfalls it conceals, what its possibilities are, is to comprehend a crucial aspect of the complicated business of living the life of a human being. -- S.i. Hayakawa
Languages shape the way we think, or don't. -- Erik Naggum
The Dream of a Common Language -- Cheryl Strayed
Language, in its origin and essence, is simply a system of signs or symbols that denote real occurrences or their echo in the human soul. -- Carl Jung
Language is the principal tool with which we communicate; but when words are used carelessly or mistakenly, what was intended to advance mutual understanding may in fact hinder it; our instrument becomes our burden -- Irving Copi
Language is a tool for communicating and not a barrier to writing -- Bernard Kelvin Clive
Language etches the grooves through which your thoughts must flow. -- Noam Chomsky
Language is a nice way to remember things. -- Erin Mckean
as Nick Ellis (2007: 23) puts it, 'language is not a collection of rules and target forms to be acquired, but rather a by-product of communicative processes', -- Scott Thornbury
Of the thousand experiences we have, we find language for one at most and even this one merely by chance and without the care it deserves. -- Pascal Mercier
Language is wine upon the lips. -- Virginia Woolf
English you're speaking," Matheus said. "The language that sidles up to other languages in dark alleys, mugs them, then rifles through their pockets for spare vocabulary. It's the bitch-whore of languages and it owns the world. Suck on that, Rome boy. -- Amy Fecteau
Language is the source of misunderstandings. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
People know two languages: their native language and gibberish. -- Maribel C. Pagan
Our language places us in a cultural continuum, linking us to the past, and showing our meanings also to future fellow-speakers. -- Nicholas Ostler
We think in language. The quality of our thoughts and ideas can only be as good as the quality of our language. -- George Carlin
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire. -- Roland Barthes
Language is the net that holds thought trapped within a particular culture. But if one could only strike the ball with sufficient force, with perfect timing, it would perhaps break through the netting, continue on its course, never fall to earth, but go into orbit around the world. -- David Lodge
Language as the technology of human extension, whose powers of division and separation we know so well, may have been the "Tower of Babel" by which men sought to scale the highest heavens. Today computers hold out the promise of a means of instant <>trong>trtrong> -- Marshall Mcluhan
Language is sometimes a barrier instead of a pathway. -- Daniel Keyes
Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language. -- Aimee Bender
I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science. -- Thomas Jefferson
Language can be used to so many diverse ends. It can be used to clarify and, of course, it can be used to obfuscate, confuse, evade ... -- Errol Morris
I want to start where language ends. -- Antony Gormley
I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me. -- Roland Barthes
Language shapes consciousness and from consciousness, our world is shaped. -- Antonella Gambotto-Burke
We live at the level of our language. -- Ellen Gilchrist
Language is not the frosting, it's the cake. -- Tom Robbins
Language is man's way of communicating with his fellow man and it is language alone which separates him from the lower animals. -- Maya Angelou
The basic agreement between human beings, indeed what makes them human and makes them social, is language. -- Monique Wittig
The world's five thousand extant languages are products of our shared ability, but the five thousand cultures they create are separate from each other. -- Richard Leakey
Language forces us to perceive the world as man presents it to us. -- Julia Penelope
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. -- Eric Garner
