2,489 Quotes About Language

Writers are writing in every corner of the globe.Writers are writing, moreover, in rich countries and poor countries alike.

Polysyllables obfuscate a preponderant ignorance with so much more style and panache.

Let each man say what he deems truth, and let truth itself be commended unto God.

A participant from Zambia, who had listened intently throughout the conference, finally raised her hand at a senior level roundtable. “I have been hearing this expression—‘we need to think outside the box’—for the past 3 days,” she said, reiterating the cliche. “It seems a little strange to me,” the woman continued with bemusement. “In my community we don't thinking boxes.

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.

Experiences for which there are no words get along without them.

Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this.

For the philosopher, language, thought, and passion are the same. Ideas are personal to a philosopher; they express their human passion and articulate their novel ideas in language. Ideas are more than mere concepts, trifles that the philosophical mind toys with. Ideas provide both the structure and inner vitality that holds great thinkers’ conceptual structure together.

In more ways than any of us can name, love is wrapped up with the idea of expectation.