L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.”
“Language is our body and our breath, our world and our thought, our perception and even out unconscious.”
“Language is our identity tool and by using experience, observation, and imagination, we each discover the words that give voice to our lives. To tell our stories is the human method of perforating our isolation tanks, the means to encapsulate what we previously learned, and the mechanism that allows us to enter the universal dialogue of compassion. Sharing the pandemonium of our life’s stories full of grime, love, noise, and steeped in emotional chaos is the act that ultimately binds us to our family, friends, and community. All lovers know each other stories. Farmers, villagers, big city hobnobs, and the citizens from all nations share a conjoined thread through storytelling that seriously investigates the collective human condition.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Language is our portal to meaning-making, connection, healing, learning, and self-awareness. Having access to the right words can open up entire universes.”
Source: Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
“Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are.”
Source: The Ten Commandments: The Significance of God's Laws in Everyday Life
“Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are. By using bad language, we diminish the divine spark within us that defines our humanity.”
Source: The Ten Commandments: The Significance of God's Laws in Everyday Life
“Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law.”
“Language is power, in ways more literal than most people think. When we speak, we exercise the power of language to transform reality. Why don't more of us realize the connection between language and power?”
“Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.”
Source: Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings
“Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.”
“Language is powerful to bring life or death. Make a responsible choice to perfect language with words that uplift and empower life.”
Source: BE INSPIRED: 365 Inspiring Thoughts
“Language is present in a piece of work like the sea in a single drop.”
“Language is present in a piece of writing like the sea in a single drop.”
Source: Polyglot: How I Learn Languages
“Language is properly the servant of thought, but not unfrequently becomes its master. The conceptions of a feeble writer are greatly modified by his style; a man of vigorous powers makes his style bend to his conceptions.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion
“Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around.”
“Language is so different from life. How am I supposed to fit the one into the other? How can I bring them together?”
“Language is so inherent to humanity, so necessary for even basic thinking, that stories and poetry are available to anyone who can process language.”
“Language is so specific to art, all the way to the past in China. Previously, people were not allowed to include various regional dialects in their films, but in every film that I've made, I've maintained the regional dialects of the characters because I wanted to make films that were locally specific.”
“Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.”
“Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.”
“Language is still separating us even though technology is bringing us closer together.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Language is such a powerful thing. After the earthquake, I went to Haiti and people were talking about how [they] described this feeling of going through an earthquake. People really didn't have the vocabulary - before we had hurricanes. I'd talk with people and they'd say, "We have to name it; it has to have a name."”
“Language is surely too small a vessel to contain these emotions of mind and body that have somehow awakened a response in the spirit.”
Source: The Well Of Loneliness
“Language is texture of images and music. We speak in images and rhythm, by taking help of words”
“Language is the alchemy of transforming a thought into a word, and the word into a new reality.”
“Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved.”
Source: On the Study of Words Lectures Addressed (originally) to the Pupils at the Diocesan Training-school, Winchester by Richard Chenevix Trench
“Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes of genius, which, unless thus fixed and arrested, might have been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning.”
Source: On the Study of Words Lectures Addressed (originally) to the Pupils at the Diocesan Training-school, Winchester by Richard Chenevix Trench
“Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public.”
“Language is the archives of history.”
Source: Essays and Lectures
“Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Prose and Verse: Complete in One Volume
“Language is the basis of culture and consciousness, so, once humans had language, they became capable of using culture to override biology (using memes to drive humanity rather than genes; using idea mutations rather than gene mutations) and thus freed humanity from animalism and instinct. The new dawn of consciousness, culture and knowledge had arrived.”
Source: Children See Dead People: Children's Spooky Powers
“Language is the best, best toy.”
“Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to look at the world in an old fashioned way.”
“Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.”
“Language is the chief means and index of a nation's progress.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Language is the close-fitting dress of thought.”
“Language is the compass that guides us to the treasures of inspiration, leading us through uncharted territories of ideas and dreams.”
“Language is the crowning achievement of human beings, and that is something Muslims have always known and revered. We are a literate people whose miracle is a Book from an unlettered man, peace and blessings be upon him, who was the most articulate and eloquent human being who ever lived. We honor our Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, in honoring language that he loved so much and used so well.”
“Language is the currency of consciousness. We speak to fill the void. We write it down to remember.”
“Language is the dress of thought.”
“Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to the gross employments of rusticks or mechanics, so the most heroick sentiments will lose their efficacy”
Source: Lives of the most eminent English poets, with critical observations on their works. With notes by P. Cunningham
“Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.”
“Language is the expression of ideas, and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas they cannot retain an identity of language.”
Source: A Dictionary of the English Language: Intended to Exhibi ... : in Two Volumes
“Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.”
“Language is the gateway of the mind and a bridge that connects us to other human beings. Language enables a person to share their clandestine inner world with other human beings and to learn about other people’s mysterious world of logical thoughts and poetic sentiments.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Language is the gateway to culture, culture is the gateway to life.”
Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
“Language is the gateway to culture,
Culture is the gateway to life.
I am no person who speaks many tongues,
I am the proof of plenticultural life.”
Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
“Language is the highway to culture.”
Source: Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood
“Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home.”
“Language is the house of the truth of Being.”
Source: Pathmarks