513 quotes found
“Numbers constitute the only universal language.”
“Soft words are hard arguments.”
“Thanks to words we have been able to rise above the brutes and thanks to words we have often sunk to the level of the demons.”
“The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.”
“The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.”
“The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.”
“The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword but not so many as have fallen by the tongue.”
“The thoughtless are rarely wordless.”
“We must have a better word than "prefabricated" why not "ready-made"?”
“We must think things not words or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand if we are to keep to the real and the true.”
“Words are the small change of thought.”
“Words should be weighed and not counted.”
“Since the concepts people live by are derived only from perceptions and from language and since the perceptions are received and interpreted only in light of earlier concepts man comes pretty clos...”
“If a conceptual distinction is to be made the machinery for making it ought to show itself in language. If a distinction cannot be made in language it cannot be made conceptually.”
“Often I am struck in amazement about a word: I suddenly realize that the complete arbitrariness of our language is but a part of the arbitrariness of our own world in general.”
“Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.”
“Who does not know another language does not know his own.”
“To me the term 'middle-class' connotes a safe comfortable middle-of-the road policy. Above all our language is 'middle-class' in the middle of our road. To drive it to one side or the other or ...”
“Similes are like songs of love: They much describe they nothing prove.”
“Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.”
