2,489 Quotes About Language
- Author Dubravka Ugrešić
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Dlatego mam wrażenie, że dopiero tutaj uczę się mówić. Nie przychodzi mi to łatwo, co chwila szukam miejsca na oddech, bylebym tylko nie musiała się zmierzyć z faktem, że nie jestem w stanie wyrazić tego, co mam do powiedzenia; byle tylko nie stanąć przed pytaniem, czy w języku, który nie nauczył się opisywać rzeczywistości, jakkolwiek złożone wydawałoby się jej wewnętrzne przeżywanie, czy w takim języku można zrobić cokolwiek, opowiedzieć historię na przykład.
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- Author Robert Eno
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In (Ancient) Greece the search for knowledge was a linguistic endeavor. I suggest that in China, ideas of valid knowing derived in association with the notion of efficacious arts, or daos, and the central questions that lie behind the philosophical enterprise of early China concern control over action and events rather than understanding; the keys to understanding lay in daos rather than in theories.
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- Author Sir P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar
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Before surviving, you shall learn the language of air in front of you;Before advising, you shall learn the language of fish in front of you;Before dying, you shall learn the language of life in front of you
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- Author Ilan Stavans
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Language belongs, not to the academics, but those who use it,
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- Author Yu. I. Manin
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A successfully chosen name is a bridge between scientific knowledge and common sense, between new experience and old habits. The conceptual foundation of any science consists of a complicated network of names of things, names of ideas, and names of names. It evolves itself, and its projection on reality changes.
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- Author José Saramago
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Certain things can only be understood if we take the trouble to retrace their origins.
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- Author Samuel R. Delany
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When you learn another tongue, you learn the way another people see the world, the universe.
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- Author Theodor Kallifatides
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Emigration is a kind of partial suicide. You don’t die, but a great deal dies within you. Not least, the language.
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- Author Kurt Vonnegut
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Hello and good-bye." What else is there to say? Our language is much larger than it needs to be.
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