2,489 Quotes About Language

Weary of all who come with words, words but no language,I make my way to the snow-covered island.The untamed has no words.The unwritten pages spread out on every side!I come upon the tracks of deer in the snow.Language but no words.

The ability to engage in linguistic communication is an essential element of our humanity. The Ancient Greeks dubbed man as the language animal. The Bible states that in the beginning there was the word. Humankind inhabits the circumscribed space of language. The nomination and boundary of language is one of the defining attributes of humankind.

Mother nature gave us words to use them as a bridge among each other and advance together, but the humans with their ridiculous stupidity and shallow intellect have used those very words to create walls, blinded by their barbarian tribalism masquerading as pompous ideologies.

10. The most I want to do is show you the end of my index finger. Its muteness.

The photographic image is a message without a code.

Puns often seem to propagate in direct proportion to efforts aimed at suppressing them. Tell someone they can't say something, and they'll find another way, much as a river will eventually find a way round any mountain on its journey to the sea.

Usipomlea mtoto wako vizuri, atakapopata shida akiwa mkubwa, na wewe utapata shida pia. Kama unadhani ameshindikana, ongea lugha anayoielewa.

Just keep communication going.

Mind thinks in images but, to communicate with another, must transform image into thought and then thought into language. That march, from image to thought to language, is treacherous. Casualties occur: the rich, fleecy texture of image, its extraordinary plasticity and flexibility, its private nostalgic emotional hues - all are lost when image is crammed into language.