L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Language is the instrument in all cases and can language be trusted?If it were not for language, could we lie?”
Source: Foxfire: confessions of a girl gang
“Language is the key that unlocks a world of possibilities, allowing us to communicate, connect, and understand each other on a deeper level.”
Source: LinguaVerse: A Journey through Language Realms
“Language is the key that unlocks the door to inspiration, allowing us to explore the limitless depths of imagination.”
“Language is the key to the heart of people.”
“Language is the leading principle which unites or separates the tribes of mankind.”
Source: THE HISTORY OF THE DECLIINE AND FALL OF THE EMPIRE
“Language is the light of the mind”
“Language is the machine of the poet.”
“Language is the main instrument of man's refusal to accept the world as it is.”
Source: George Steiner: A Reader
“Language is the medium of our thoughts.”
Source: Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure
“Language is the memory of man. Without it he has no past, a paltry present, and an empty future. With it he can bring his dreams to life.”
“Language is the most beautiful and destructive thing because it allows you to express yourself, but it totally confuses everything.”
“Language is the most efficient instrument with which humans articulate and communicate thoughts. This statement is generally true, but if unconditionally accepted, it could lead to a misunderstanding of the world of thoughts, ideas, emotions, and visual experiences, ultimately leading to an insufficient understanding of the world.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“Language is the most elementary aspect to our humanness, probably. In addition to that, it's the embodiment, it's the apotheosis of the human experience, it's the way we summarize ourselves.”
“Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.”
“Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.”
Source: Language
“Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.”
Source: No Compromise: Selected Writings of Karl Kraus
“Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.”
“Language is the net that holds thought trapped within a particular culture. But if one could only strike the ball with sufficient force, with perfect timing, it would perhaps break through the netting, continue on its course, never fall to earth, but go into orbit around the world.”
Source: The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work
“Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to serve language.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“Language is the only homeland.”
“Language is the only thing worth knowing even poorly.”
“Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.”
Source: Miscellaneous Essays and Discourses
“Language is the primary way we communicate with each other, and we have really strong feelings about what words mean, and about good language and bad. Those things are really based on sort of an agglutination of half-remembered rules from high school or college, and our own personal views on language and the things we grew up saying, the things we grew up being told not to say.”
“Language is the principal tool with which we communicate; but when words are used carelessly or mistakenly, what was intended to advance mutual understanding may in fact hinder it; our instrument becomes our burden”
“Language is the rich fabric that enshrouds all experience that is truly human. Those who are hyperpolyglots therefore adorn multiple layers of beautiful fabrics at the same time. They have multiple lives in one sense; and they certainly have multiple souls.”
Source: HYPIA at One: HYPIA Annual Report 2017
“Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.”
Source: Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual
“Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.”
“Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.”
“Language is the soul’s ozone layer and we thin it at our peril.”
Source: The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
“Language is the source of misunderstandings.”
“Language is the spiritual exhalation of the nation.”
“Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.”
“Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the Englishes I grew up with”
“Language is the tool of the tools”
“Language is the writer's only tool - we really don't have anything else - but our language contains within it our entire experience of the world.”
“Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.”
Source: The Miracle Worker
“Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.”
“Language is virtually always pathological; hence the solution is to move as fast and far as possible from language to experience, from linguistic to experimental or psychological philosophy. In order to know that we are not in the linguistic maze, we need to determine, according to Berkeley, whether the things we are talking about exist; hence we need to look for the relevant perceptions. For him, this usually means retiring into himself and trying to imagine whether x exists, having formed the best definition possible of x.”
“Language is what books do very well and movement is what movies does very well.”
“Language is what stops the heart exploding.”
“Language is wild - you can't fence it or tell it what to do - and it's the same with people. Even under the worst excesses of Stalinism or consumerism, the human spirit will still express itself.”
“Language is wine upon the lips.”
“Language is, in other words, not necessary, but voluntary. If it were necessary, it would have stayed simple; it would not agitate our hearts with ever-present loveliness and ever-cresting ambiguity; it would not dream, on its long white bones, of turning into song.”
Source: West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems
“Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind.”
“Language itself changes slowly but the internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.”
“Language itself is a mask. It's the first mask in the series of invented selves - they've come right out of language. The way you speak changes you, because when you are speaking, you are representing yourself in a certain way.”
“Language itself is under attack. And it’s losing. Badly. The rise of television was one thing, but the internet has really escalated the assault.”
Source: In Limbo
“Language just gradually came in, one or two stressed words a time. Before then, I would just scream. I couldn't talk. I couldn't get my words out. So the only way I could tell someone what I wanted was to scream. If I didn't want to wear a hat, the only way I knew to communicate was screaming and throwing it on the floor.”
“Language leads a double life - and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence, you consult menus and shopping lists, you observe road signs, and so on. Then you enter your study, where language exists in quite another form - as the stuff of patterned artifice.”
Source: The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1986-2016
“Language learning cultivates a sense of curiosity, encouraging a lifelong love for exploration, discovery, and continuous learning.”
Source: LinguaVerse: A Journey through Language Realms