2,489 Quotes About Language

In fact, some theories of language development suggest that humans learned to dance and sing before we could talk, that music was actually the first human language.

No matter where we come from, there is one language we can all speak and understand from birth, the language of the heart, love.

I am beginning to worry that my speech is becoming a rather incomprehensible mixture of a Victorian woman, an Australian Beach Bum and a Laddish city boy

Language has an ideological agenda that is apt to be hidden from view.

Why have a word for something they'd never seen?

A word devoid of thought is a dead thing, and a thought unembodied in words remains a shadow.

A thing named, misnamed, unnamed, or renamed is still itself.

It is often in our best interest not to understand, to misunderstand, or to pretend not to understand.

I formed several possible stories out of her speech, formed them at once, so it was less like I failed to understand than that I understood in chords, understood in a plurality of worlds.