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Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words the understand the ideas they stand for.
Cardinal john Newman (1801-1890)
One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lost their edge.
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) American author.
If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
George Orwell (1903-1950) British author.
In the end we shell make thought crime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.
George Orwell (1903-1950) British author.
Language is a uniquely human characteristic. Each person has programmed into his genes a faculty called universal grammar.
Noam Chomsky (b.1928) American philosopher.
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
Sir Winston Churchill.
Language as well as the faculty of speech, was the immediate gift of God.
Oah Webster.
Language is the dress of thought.
Johnson.
Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.
Sir H.Davy.
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Coleridge.
What would the science of language be without missions.
Max Muller.
Language is the amber in which a thousand precious thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes or 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. Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow; and laden with this, their precious freight, they sail safety across gulfs of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck, and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion,
Trench.
Language most shows a man; speak that I may see there; it springs out of the most retired and inmost part of us.
Ben Jonson.
The common people do not accurately adapt their thoughts to objects; nor, secondly, do they accurately adapt their words to their thoughts; they do not mean to lie; but taking no pains to be exact, they give you very false accounts.
A great part of their language is proverbial; if anything rocks at all, they say it rocks like a cradle; and in this way they go on.
Johnson.
If the way in which men express their thoughts is slipshod and mean, it will be very difficult for their thoughts themselves to escape being the same. If it is high flown and bombastic, a character for national simplicity and truthfulness cannot be maintained.
Alford.
The creator has gifted the whole universe with language, but few are the hearts that can interpret it. Happy those to whom it is no foreign tongue, acquired imperfectly with carte and pain, but rather a native language, learned unconsciously from the lips of the great mother.
Bulwer.
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
Voltaire.
Charles V.used to say that “ the more language a man knew, he was so many more times a man.” Each new form of human speech introduces one into a new world of thought and life. So in some degree is it in traversing other continents and mingling with other races.
As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.
Roger Ascham.
A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is ignorant of his own.
Goethe.
Poetry cannot be translated; and therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language.
Johnson.
Cardinal john Newman (1801-1890)
One of the difficulties in the language is that all our words from loose using have lost their edge.
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) American author.
If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
George Orwell (1903-1950) British author.
In the end we shell make thought crime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.
George Orwell (1903-1950) British author.
Language is a uniquely human characteristic. Each person has programmed into his genes a faculty called universal grammar.
Noam Chomsky (b.1928) American philosopher.
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
Sir Winston Churchill.
Language as well as the faculty of speech, was the immediate gift of God.
Oah Webster.
Language is the dress of thought.
Johnson.
Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.
Sir H.Davy.
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Coleridge.
What would the science of language be without missions.
Max Muller.
Language is the amber in which a thousand precious thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes or 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. Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow; and laden with this, their precious freight, they sail safety across gulfs of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck, and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion,
Trench.
Language most shows a man; speak that I may see there; it springs out of the most retired and inmost part of us.
Ben Jonson.
The common people do not accurately adapt their thoughts to objects; nor, secondly, do they accurately adapt their words to their thoughts; they do not mean to lie; but taking no pains to be exact, they give you very false accounts.
A great part of their language is proverbial; if anything rocks at all, they say it rocks like a cradle; and in this way they go on.
Johnson.
If the way in which men express their thoughts is slipshod and mean, it will be very difficult for their thoughts themselves to escape being the same. If it is high flown and bombastic, a character for national simplicity and truthfulness cannot be maintained.
Alford.
The creator has gifted the whole universe with language, but few are the hearts that can interpret it. Happy those to whom it is no foreign tongue, acquired imperfectly with carte and pain, but rather a native language, learned unconsciously from the lips of the great mother.
Bulwer.
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
Voltaire.
Charles V.used to say that “ the more language a man knew, he was so many more times a man.” Each new form of human speech introduces one into a new world of thought and life. So in some degree is it in traversing other continents and mingling with other races.
As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.
Roger Ascham.
A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is ignorant of his own.
Goethe.
Poetry cannot be translated; and therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language.
Johnson.
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