Language Quotes

We defend ourself with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
- Iris Murdoch

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
- Hermann Weyl

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
- Henry Brooks Adams

The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.
- Henri Delacroix

If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of humn thought.
- Helen Keller

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found the time to conquer the world.
- Heinrich Heine

We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.
- H R Halderman

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
- Gaston Bachelard

If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.
- Friedrich Hebbel

The language of truth is simple.
- Euripides