Best 3547 quotes in «language quotes» category

We can move no faster than the evolution of our language, and this is certainly part of what the psychedelics are about: they force the evolution of language.

We cannot even reproduce our thoughts entirely in words.

We cannot be divided either by the languages we speak, by the faiths we profess or by the political views we choose.

We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story.

We communicate all the time, even when we don't realize it. Be aware of body language

We didn't say anything because there was such an awful lot to say, and no language to say it in.

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.

We don't realize how much we create reality through language. If we say that life is hard, it will be hard.

We exchanged many frank words in our respective languages.

We generally learn languages for the benefit of reading the books written in them

We have found that companies need to speak a common language, because some of the suggested ways to harness disruptive innovation are seemingly counter-intuitive. If companies don't have that common language, it is hard for them to come to consensus on a counter-intuitive course of action.

We have language and they do not. Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking - all these things. And they have lots of sounds. But they cannot sit and discuss. They cannot teach about things that are not present, as far as we know.

We have needed to define ourselves by reclaiming the words that define us. They have used language as weapons. When we open ourselves to what they say and how they say it, our narrow prejudices evaporate and we are nourished and armed.

We have only the language for fun and miserable, and maybe we need language for deep and shallow, meaningful and meaningless.

We have this enormous connection to the living world that is reflected in our language...

We have to come back to something like ordinary language after all when we want to talk "about" mathematics!

We Hindus and Mohamedans would have to blame our folly rather than the English, if we allowed them to put us asunder.

We know enough of our own history by now to be aware that people exploit what they have merely concluded to be of value, but they defend what they love. To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.

We like to assume that language is a purely human property, our exclusive possession, and that everything else is basically mute.

We live in our language like blind men walking on the edge of an abyss. This language is laden with future catastrophes. The day will come when it will turn against those who speak it.

Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish.

Welsh is now almost a national language in Wales. The Scottish dialects are reviving to some extent. I don't think it's a major thing, but it's there, and it's happening elsewhere.

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it. This is the reason why it is so difficult for any but natives to speak a language correctly or idiomatically.

We must be capable of speaking a language of peace, but not one of surrender.

We need language to tell us who we are, how we feel, what we're capable of- to explain the pains and glory of our existence.

we must be precise with love, its language and its gestures. If it is to save us, we must look at it as clearly as we should learn to look at death

We photographers are poets in the language of symbols.

We're persecuted in the most civilized languages.

Were a language ever completely "grammatical" it would be a perfect engine of conceptual expression. Unfortunately, or luckily, no language is tyrannically consistent. All grammars leak.

We're all surrounded by what I call faux language, fake language of commerce, of news media.

Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.

We should never lower our dignity by lowering our language.

We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.

We shall say that we have acquaintance with anything of which we are directly aware, without the intermediary of any process of inference of any knowledge of truths.

We sit for a few more moments, although there's really nothing left to say. This is new to me, too, an entire conversation that takes place in silence, because the heart has its own language. I will remember what Eric says even though he doesn't say a word. I will tell it to her.

We share plates [with Jordan Peele], and we also very often will sit in the corner and kind of speak in our own language.

We tried to make it more than just a cartoon. It was a cartoon, but we tried to make it more than it was to begin with. And I have 300,000 followers from Turkey, Romania, Poland, and places over there that love Life With Louie, where it was translated into their language. They love it. They are absolutely in love with it. And it just goes to show you: no matter where you go, it's always about family.

We think in language. We think in words. Language is the landscape of thought.

We think of history as another specialization, like philosophy of language, rather than as something that informs everything we do and think.

We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth.

We've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.

Whatever Language Pakistan understands India should teach in that language

We who write in English are fortunate to have the richest and most versatile language in the world. Respect it.

We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.

What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words.

What else is the power of melody but the power of feeling? Music is the language of feeling; melody is audible feeling - feeling communicating itself.

Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's.

We will go to every part of Tamil Nadu and tell the people that Hindi is coming and that it is like a thunder strike on the heads of Tamil and Dravidian people.... If Hindi were to become the official language of India, Hindi-speaking people will govern us. We will be treated like third rate citizens

What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends.