2,489 Quotes About Language

Language. The central elements of any culture or civilization are language and religion

Language can carry us past the horror to the sense of purpose in a life that refuses to surrender to that darkness.

Without language we have no past, the present is unquantifiable, and we lack a means to recognize and express the paradoxical future challenges of humanity. In absence of a shared language, we cannot understand prior generation’s conflicts, desires, and achievements, nor can we communicate with future generations our essential values and the wisdom we garner through undergoing our own socioeconomic crises

A distinction was drawn between the scientific use of language - where a word is chosen for the meaning it has - and the magical use of language for the meaning a word conveys or transports

Quran, Bible and Bhagavad Gita were told by God and written by you, may be you had misinterpreted according to your language, faith and culture

But I am a storyteller, and that involves language, for me the English language, that wonderfully rich, complex, and ofttimes confusing tongue. When language is limited, I am thereby diminished, too.

Nothing seems more beautiful to me than language when it creats the impression of order.

It has been said that when an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. But when a language dies, it is a whole world that comes to an end.

Language is a shared and sharing part of a culture that cares little about formal classifications and much about vitality and connection, for culture itself perishes in purity or isolation, which is the deadly wages of perfection. Like bread and love, language is shared with others. And human beings share a tradition. There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.