language Quotes

“If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success.”

― Confucius, Analects

topic:truth words success language

“if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”

― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

topic:thought language

“But remember, language is man’s way of communication with other people and it is language alone which separates him from the lower animals.”

― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“We believe there is a common language that all technical civilizations, no matter how different, must have. That common language is science and mathematics.”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

topic:science language

“Teach me to speak the language of men.”

― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes

topic:men speech language

“A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

topic:words language

“Language!—the blood of the soul, Sir! into which our thoughts run and out of which they grow!”

― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Professor at the Breakfast-Table

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“Such is the magic of human languages, that by human accord often the same sounds mean different things.”

― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

topic:language difference

“Being in a foreign country means walking a tightrope high above the ground without the net afforded a person by the country where he has his family, colleagues, and friends, and where he can easily say what he has to say in a language he has...”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“I learned that pilgrims from every land—every color, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike—all snored in the same language.”

― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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