Language Quotes - Page 26

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

The physicist may be satisfied when he has the mathematical scheme and knows how to use for the interpretation of the experiments. But he has to speak about his results also to non-physicists who will not be satisfied unless some explanation is given in plain language. Even for the physicist the description in plain language will be the criterion of the degree of understanding that has been reached.

The constructions of language, which is to say the constructions of thought, are formed within experience, not the other way around.

There are no philosophical problems, there is only a suite of interconnected linguistic cul de sacs created by language's inability to reflect the truth.

[Languages] became a tool that served me my whole life.

Schizophrenic language has in this sense an interesting resemblance to poetry.

We should never lower our dignity by lowering our language.

Music is a language, a universal language.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

Hispanics speak Spanish or Portuguese, which are languages we Americans are familiar with, so it doesn't seem to pose the same types of problems as Arabic-speaking Muslims do in Europe.

If we look at the representatives of two superpowers - America and Britain - and look at their conduct and their language, we would notice that they are more motivated by war than their responsibility for peace.

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

Changes in language often reflect the changing values of a culture.

Prune what is turgid, elevate what is commonplace, arrange what is disorderly, introduce rhythm where the language is harsh, modify where it is too absolute.

You can only photograph a fragment of the here and now. The photograph presents the world as object; language, the world as idea.

No language which lends itself to visualizability can describe quantum jumps.

When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them--then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are far apart.

Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.

Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they clothe, because the external form of the clothes is constructed with quite another object than to let the form of the body be recognized.

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.

An entire mythology is stored within our language.

I decided to come back and teach goodness in this business. To teach love, because music is the universal language. We are God's bouquet, and through music we become one.

Elvis is the greatest cultural force in the twentieth century. He introduced the beat to everything, music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution - the 60's comes from it.

The original language of Christianity is translation.