Quotes about language provide insights and reflections on the power and importance of communication. These quotes emphasize the significance of language in conveying thoughts, ideas, and emotions. They highlight how language shapes our perception of the world and the connections we establish with others. Such quotes inspire us to recognize the value of language in expressing ourselves and understanding different cultures.
Language is the only thing worth knowing even poorly. — Kató Lomb
A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language. — Frantz Fanon
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Language is the picture and counterpart of thought. — Mark Hopkins
This is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units that can then be inhabited and manipulated. — Stanley Fish
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true. — Salman Rushdie
A different language is a different vision of life. — Federico Fellini
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be sure to enjoy language, experiment with ways of talking, be exuberant even when you don't feel like it because language can make your world a better place to live. — Deborah Levy
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing. — Claude Levi-Strauss
Short Language Quotes
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. — Mark Twain
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. — Mark Twain
The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics. — Galileo Galilei
Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love — Rumi
Men of few words are the best men." (3.2.41) — William Shakespeare
Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe. — Galileo Galilei
Who does not love his own tongue is far worse than a brute or stinking fish. — Jose Rizal
The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.' — Grace Hopper
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help. — Ronald Reagan
Learning Indian mannerisms, how to wear saris, and the language were a challenge. — Amy Jackson
Language Image Quotes
Laughter is the language of the soul. — Pablo Neruda
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand. — Stevie Wonder
I want to understand you, I study your obscure language. — Alexander Pushkin
A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.
All language is but a poor translation. — Franz Kafka
The language of friendship is not words, but meanings.
If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
The limits of my language means the limits of my world. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.
Art provides the language we need to appreciate life. — Oscar Wilde
Code never lies, comments sometimes do. — Ron Jeffries
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Body Language Quotes
Horses are very keen on body language, and what I refer to as “presence”, and expression. They know quite a bit about you before you ever get to ‘em. They can read things about you clear across an arena. — Buck Brannaman
If language was given to men to conceal their thoughts, then gesture's purpose was to disclose them. — John Napier
Shoes transform your body language and attitude. They lift you physically and emotionally. — Christian Louboutin
Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication. — Abraham Maslow
Don't fake it till you make it. Fake it till you become it. — Amy Cuddy
Body language and tone of voice - not words - are our most powerful assessment tools. — Chris Voss
The ability to speak several languages is an asset, but the ability to keep your mouth shut in any language is priceless.
There's a very basic human, non-verbal aspect to our need to make music and use it as part of our human expression. It doesn't have to do with body movements, it doesn't have to do with articulation of a language, but with something spiritual. — John Towner Williams
I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language. — Italo Calvino
Language is surely too small a vessel to contain these emotions of mind and body that have somehow awakened a response in the spirit. — Radclyffe Hall
Talk to yourself in two languages - what do I fear and what do I love - in order to balance the body and the soul. — Peter Shepherd
Sign Language Quotes
Machine translation of signs, text, and speech brings down language barriers and facilitates ever more cross-cultural meetings of like minds. — Balaji Srinivasan
What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood. — Alice Miller
Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery. — Amy Chua
In your silence, when there are no words, no language, nobody else is present, you are getting in tune with existence.
Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages. — Ferdinand De Saussure
As long as we have deaf people on earth, we will have signs. And as long as we have our films, we can preserve signs in their old purity. It is my hope that we will all love and guard our beautiful sign language as the noblest gift God has given to deaf people. — George Veditz
There are hundreds of languages around the world, but a smile speaks them all.
Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language. — John Brown
The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs. — A. E. Waite
My granddad wanted to become a sign painter and designer, but was stopped; my dad would have had a real talent for language, but was stopped. When I expressed a desire to become a graphic designer, I was not stopped. — Stefan Sagmeister
The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise? — Hugo Ball
Power Of Language Quotes
A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths so that these may become of more speedy and accurate practical application for the purposes of mankind than the means hitherto in our possession have rendered possible. — Ada Lovelace
When you cut facilities, slash jobs, abuse power, discriminate, drive people into deeper poverty & shoot people dead whilst refusing to provide answers or justice, the people will rise up & express their anger & frustration if you refuse to hear their cries. A riot is the language of the unheard. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Challenging power structures from the inside, working the cracks within the system, however, requires learning to speak multiple languages of power convincingly. — Patricia Hill Collins
We all smile in the same language.
Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts. — Patrick Rothfuss
The photograph is an undeniably powerful medium. Free from the constraints of language, and harnessing the unique qualities of a single moment frozen in time. — Steve McCurry
By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach. — Winston Churchill
Music is the universal language of mankind.
The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail. — John Wesley Powell
One of the benefits of being a mature well-educated woman is that you're not afraid of expletives. And you have no fear to put a fool in his place. That's the power of language and experience. You can learn a lot from Shakespeare. — Judi Dench
No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Learning A New Language Quotes
The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it. — Dennis Ritchie
If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go. — Yao Ming
The luster of an experience can actually go up with time. So, learning to play a new instrument, learning a new language - those sorts of things will pay dividends for years or decades to come. — Dan Buettner
Language is not a genetic gift, it is a social gift. Learning a new language is becoming a member of the club -the community of speakers of that language. — Frank Smith
When I left Barcelona, staying in Spain was an important factor in my decision to join Madrid. I did not have to change country or learn a new language, adopt a different sort of lifestyle, and so on. — Luis Figo
I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. — Emily Carr
If only I could visit you as a foreigner goes into a new country, learn the language of you, wander past all borders into every private and secret place, I would stay forever. I would become a citizen of you. — Lisa Kleypas
Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here. — Yao Ming
We all need to learn a new language for love - a language that speaks not in socks, pancakes, and paychecks, but in shared fascination with physics or poetry, delight in each other's uniqueness, and mutual practical and emotional support. — Barbara Sher
Find a way to say “Yes” to things. Say yes to invitations to a new country, say yes to meet new friends, say yes to learning a new language, picking up a new sport. Yes is how you get your first job, and your next job. Yes is how you find your spouse, and even your kids. — Eric Schmidt
Foreign Language Quotes
If I am selling to you, I speak your language. If I am buying, dann müssen sie Deutsch sprechen. — Willy Brandt
My neighbor has two dogs. One of them says to the other, "Woof!" The other replies, "Moo!" The dog is perplexed. "Moo? Why did you say 'Moo'?" The other dog says, "I'm trying to learn a foreign language." — Morey Amsterdam
Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom. — Roger Bacon
Still, Lenin personally also forced through the deportation in fall 1922 of theologians, linguists, historians, mathematicians, and other intellectuals on two chartered German ships, dubbed the Philosophers’ Steamers. GPU notes on them recorded: “knows a foreign language,” “uses irony.” — Stephen Kotkin
I speak the truth but I guess that's a foreign language to ya'll! — Lil Wayne
I believe the United States should allow all foreigners in this country, provided they can speak our native language... Apache. — Steve Martin
You can never understand one language until you understand at least two. — Geoffrey Willans
Independent India's leaders will neither use a foreign language nor rule from a remote place. — Vallabhbhai Patel
When a foreigner swears in his own language, we are not offended. — Albanian Proverbs
[When her daughter suggested the President refer in his conversation with foreign dignitaries about lawn care to 'fertilizer' instead of to 'manure':] But remember, it took me almost thirty years to get him to call it manure. — Bess Truman
Language Learning Quotes
As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can". — John Muir
The world is not the most pleasant place. Eventually, your parents leave you and nobody is going to go out of their way to protect you unconditionally. You need to learn to stand up for yourself and what you believe and sometimes, pardon my language, kick some ass. — Queen Elizabeth II
Learning is never done without errors and defeat. — Vladimir Lenin
To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature ... If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in. — Richard P. Feynman
There is in every child a painstaking teacher, so skilful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of the world. The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything! — Maria Montessori
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Expressing myself through language was always something that I had to learn to do more so than others. — Maajid Nawaz
I’m not going to a language school to learn Italian, that’s not what I came to do at Ferrari. — Kimi Raikkonen
I think human beings have evolved to appreciate narrative, in the same way that we have evolved to learn language. What is narrative, after all, but a kind of super-language, where stories, like words, are ways of encapsulating information? — Alex Epstein
Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way. — B. F. Skinner
English Language Quotes
The basis of any independent government is a national language, and we can no longer continue aping our former colonizers ... those who feel they cannot do without English can as well pack up and go. — Jomo Kenyatta
Many people do not know that Jesus did not speak Latin or English or Hebrew; he spoke Aramaic. But nobody knows that language. So we're talking about the Bible itself being a translation of a translation of a translation. And, in reality, it has affected people's lives in history. — Ngugi wa Thiong'o
In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English? — Marlene Dietrich
I can fluently speak five languages: English, emoji, sexting, sarcasm and sass. — Tyler Oakley
I was wondering why I was put in prison for working in an African language when I had not been put in prison for working in English. So really, in prison I started thinking more seriously about the relation between language and power. — Ngugi wa Thiong'o
We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary. — Booker T. Washington
FEAR is an acronym in the English language for 'False Evidence Appearing Real'. — Neale Donald Walsch
Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside? — Jackson Browne
My favorite three words in the English language are: ’I don’t know’, because every time I say them, I learn something new. — Timothy Leary
Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons. — Aldous Huxley
Human Language Quotes
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race. — Kofi Annan
There is only one caste... the caste of humanity. There is only one religion... the religion of love. There is only one language... the language of the heart. — Sathya Sai Baba
In my games I have sometimes found a combination intuitively simply feeling that it must be there. Yet I was not able to translate my thought processes into normal human language. — Mikhail Tal
The specifically human capacity for language enables children to provide for auxiliary tools in the solution of difficult tasks, to overcome impulsive action, to plan a solution to a problem prior to its execution, and to master their own behavior. — Lev S. Vygotsky
Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’ — Eleanor Roosevelt
It gives a message to people of love... it does not matter what's the colour of your skin, what language do you speak, what religion do you believe in. It is that we should all consider each other as human beings and we should respect each other. — Malala Yousafzai
In Náhuatl, the language of the Aztec world, one key word for poet was 'tlamatine,' meaning 'the one who knows,' or 'he who knows something.' Poets were considered 'sages of the word,' who meditated on human enigmas and explored the beyond, the realm of the gods. — Edward Hirsch
Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the congenitally blind, to see with another person’s eyes. — Oliver Sacks
Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people. — Leon Trotsky
What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today, when human contacts are so quick. Fashion is instant language. — Miuccia Prada
Love Language Quotes
If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. — Paul the Apostle
Most of the problems of the world stems from linguistic mistakes and simple misunderstandings. Don’t ever take words at face value. When you step into the zone of love, language as we know it becomes obsolete. That which cannot be put into words can only be grasped through silence. — Shams Tabrizi
Mama had an appreciation of the language. She taught me a love of words, of how they should be used and how they can fill a creative soul with a passion and lead to a life's work. — Lewis Grizzard
Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. No matter what language we speak, what color we are, the form of our politics or the expression of our love and our faith, music proves: We are the same. — John Denver
Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart, blushing, whispered the first word of love; it is the home that God has given you that by striving to perfect yourselves therein you may prepare to ascend to him. — Giuseppe Mazzini
Nothing is impossible for a man with a strong will. The possible is in store only for a man who loves the future. There is no word "impossible" in the Korean language. — Kim Jong Il
He who does not love his mother tongue is worse than a rotten fish. —
When the heart speaks, however simple the words, its language is always acceptable to those who have hearts. — Mary Baker Eddy
Work with the language of love, because that's what everyone wants for him, love will bring accountability, society will discipline itself if he already knows how he loves himself, the environment and god. — Joko Widodo
Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open. — J. K. Rowling
Language Of Love Quotes
People tend to criticize their spouse most loudly in the area where they themselves have the deepest emotional need. — Gary Chapman
So many of our love languages are based on how our parents loved us or didn't love us. What our parents gave us either has become our priority or what they didn't give us has become our priority. — Jay Shetty
To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished. — Roland Barthes
As for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance and to friendship, whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language. — Thomas More
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries. — Jimmy Carter
Color is the language of the poets. It is astonishingly lovely. To speak it is a privilege. — Keith Crown
There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others. — J. Donald Walters
There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others. — Goswami Kriyananda
I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean? It means I review my future and my past in the light of this feeling. It is as though I wrote in a foreign language that I am suddenly able to read. Wordlessly, she explains me to myself. LIke genius she is ignorant of what she does. — Jeanette Winterson
Universal Language Quotes
Educators need to know what happens in the world of the children with whom they work. They need to know the universe of their dreams, the language with which they skillfully defend themselves from the aggressiveness of their world, what they know independently of the school, and how they know it. — Paulo Freire
Music is the universal language ... it brings people closer together. — Ella Fitzgerald
Music is the universal language: it is the same anywhere you go in the world. — Anonymous
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language. — Walt Disney
In these days of political, personal and economic disintegration, music is not a luxury, it's a necessity; not simply because it is therapeutic, nor because it is the universal language, but because it is the persistent focus of our intelligence, aspiration and goodwill. — Robert Lawson Shaw
I think it would be a tragic statement of the universe if Java was the last language that swept through. — James Gosling
One of my big philosophies is that fighting is the sport that crosses all borders. I don't care what color you are, what country you come from or what language you speak, fighting is in our DNA. We get it and we like it. — Dana White
Movement is the universal language of personal freedom. — Louis Chevrolet
I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization. — Frantz Fanon
I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through. — Sean Lennon
One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot. — James Joyce
The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard. — Simone Weil
Rhetoric is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic and continually born anew: the use of language as a symbolic means of inducing cooperation in beings that by nature respond to symbols. — Kenneth Burke
I don't know the rules of grammar... If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular. — David Ogilvy
Language has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself; it is a means to an end of understanding who you are and what society is like. — David Crystal
I have zero ideas how to use a comma, punctuation, or spell 82% of the English language. I used to edit videos in the back of my high school English class. — MrBeast
This overall flow of genetic information—from DNA to RNA to protein—is known as the central dogma of molecular biology, and it is the language used to communicate and express life. — Jennifer Doudna
Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality. — Adrienne Rich
Language Words Quotes
Sometimes you search so hard for words. You look for a way to interpret the language of this heart and the unspoken bond you feel. But in the end you are left with nothing but silence. And deep down you hope it’s understood. — Yasmin Mogahed
A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It's all embodied in a language. — Noam Chomsky
There's no word in the language I revere more than 'teacher.' My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his teacher, and it always has. I've honored myself and the entire family of man by becoming a teacher. — Pat Conroy
Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist. — Anais Nin
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire. — Roland Barthes
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. — George Orwell
In your silence, when there are no words, no language, nobody else is present, you are getting in tune with existence. — Osho [Chandra Mohan Jain]
Filthy language is used by people who don't have the maturity or intelligence to express themselves with better words. — Nouman Ali Khan
Languages Communication Quotes
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair. — Charles Dickens
Symbolism is the language of the Mysteries. By symbols men have ever sought to communicate to each other those thoughts which transcend the limitations of language. — Manly Hall
The divine communicates to us primarily through the language of the natural world. Not to hear the natural world is not to hear the divine. — Thomas Berry
What you wear represents you to the world, especially now, when communication between people is so fast. Fashion is a universal language that everyone understands. — Miuccia Prada
The way I make art, the way a lot of people make art, is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important. — Shepard Fairey
A degree of lying - you know, white lies - seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication. — Matthew Lesko
Keep the other person's well being in mind when you feel an attack of soul-purging truth coming on. — Betty White
Language quotes also highlight the nuances and complexities within communication. They remind us that words hold immense power and can both build bridges and create barriers. These quotes compel us to choose our words wisely, as they have the potential to uplift, inspire, and unite or to hurt, divide, and mislead. They encourage us to strive for clarity and precision in our language, as it is the foundation for effective and meaningful communication.
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