Human Language Quotes
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Human Language Quotes & Sayings
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A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking.
— Seymour Papert
The gift of language is the single human trait that marks us all genetically, setting us apart from the rest of life.
— Lewis Thomas
The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.
— Noam Chomsky
Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
— Claude Levi-Strauss
Any language is a supreme achievement of a uniquely human collective genius, as divine and endless a mystery as a living organism." A
— Steven Pinker
Human Language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when all the time we are longing to move the stars to pity.
— Gustave Flaubert
If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying human nature.
— Charlton Laird
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
— Gustave Flaubert
Every two weeks, a language dies. The world is diminished when it loses its human sayings, just as when it loses its diversity of plants and beasts.
— Eduardo Galeano
The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate.
— Michael Eric Dyson
The rising and falling cadence of words, carried on the wind, spoken in a language other than human.
— Megan Shepherd
The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.
— Lewis Thomas
It's not that words or human language stop having any meaning or relevance after you die, by the way.
— David Foster Wallace
Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.
— Steven Pinker
If the Aeneid is language as metaphor, as the sacramental ritualizing of human experience, Cicero's speeches are language as practical tool.
— Thomas Cahill
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.
— James C. Maxwell
You couldn't have human society without language.
— John Maynard Smith
Drawing - it's the first language of human beings, before writing, before even talking, before words, human beings was drawing.
— Marjane Satrapi
The power of nature exists in its silence. Human words cannot encode the meaning because human language has access only to the shadow of meaning.
— Malidoma Patrice Some
One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
— John Berger
I think when we engage in language we are engaging in something that is specifically and primally human.
— ZZ Packer
Human suffering is articulated in language; communication is how we seek help, consolation, etc.
— Rigoberto Gonzalez
Besides language and music mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind.
— Hermann Weyl
If our language is watered down, then mankind becomes less human, and less free ...
— Madeleine L'Engle
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Our souls speak a language that is beyond human understanding. A connection so rare the universe won't let us part.
— Nikki Rowe
Poetry reminds us of the truths about life and human nature that we knew all along, but forgot somehow because they weren't yet in memorable language.
— Diane Ackerman
English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Even though language has its richness the relationship between language and the writer is always like a stone and you have to make the stone human.
— Carmen Boullosa
Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution.
— Jean Berko Gleason
To deny access to translation and interpreting services oppresses human rights and violates laws.
— Nataly Kelly
I believe that music surpasses even language in its power to mirror the innermost recesses of the human soul
— George Crumb
Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind.
— Susanne Katherina Langer
Language is infinite. It can be as creative, and as chillingly precise, as the human mind.
— Alena Graedon
Paraphrasing..Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality.
— Naguib Mahfouz
It seems to me that right under the surface of human neurological organization is a mode shift of some sort that would make language beholdable.
— Terence McKenna
Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular.
— Soren Kierkegaard
The language of love is unspoken. It is a feeling, an acknowledgment, and acceptance of not only our human frailties, but our divine eminence.
— Charles F. Glassman
Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.
— Carol Shields
The language of my love does not belong to human language, my human body does not touch the flesh of my love.
— Paul Eluard
It is within and through language that the human mind points to itself.
— James N. Powell
Our language is primarily for expressing human goodness and beauty.
— Yasunari Kawabata
As long as human beings speak different languages, the need for translation will continue.
— Nataly Kelly
What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.
— Jane Goodall
That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.
— George Boole
It doesn't matter where we are from, what language we speak or how we look like, it matters that we are all human beings.
— Lee Soo-Jun
The human language, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague.
— Garth Stein
He felt the logic of grammar, and he thought he perceived how it spread out from itself, permeating the language and supporting human thought.
— John Edward Williams
In many ways, religion comes from the same place in us that art comes from. The language of the human heart if poetry
— Krista Tippett
The nation provided a human with the things that are most human - language and a past that stretched back before his birth.
— George Friedman
We humans speak many languages; flowers on the contrary speak only one language: The language of beauty!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today when human contacts go so fast. Fashion is instant language.
— Miuccia Prada
Every language has is a beauty, it has it's own uniqueness, it's own fascinating sounds that birth the originality of human being.
— Euginia Herlihy
Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition.
— Jane Yolen
That was the problem with the outside world, the human world. The whole thing was made up puzzles, of a language she didn't quite speak.
— Lauren Oliver
Whether consciously or not, sexist God language undermines the human equality of women made in the divine image and likeness.
— Elizabeth A. Johnson
Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
— Alfred North Whitehead
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most human beings know only the language of exploitation. Due to their selfishness, they are unable to consider others.
— Mata Amritanandamayi
Ask, 'How are we different from the great apes?' We have culture, we have civilisation, and we have language to be celebrated as part of being human.
— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
— Noam Chomsky
Our all-powerful God got so scared He scattered the human race across the face of the earth, and shattered their language to keep His children apart.
— Chuck Palahniuk
He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a particularly nasty clock which makes him go crazy every three years or so.
— Kurt Vonnegut
We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.
— Henry David Thoreau
NVC is founded on language and communication skills that strengthen our ability to remain human, even under trying conditions.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
As many languages you know, as many times you are a human being
— Tomas Garrigue Masaryk
All human efforts to communicate - even in the same language - are equally utopian, equally luminous with value, and equally worth the doing.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight or broad human sentiment.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being ... Language should be more than just getting by.
— Chogyam Trungpa
Every drop of human blood contains a history book written in the language of our genes.
— Spencer Wells
Like all other music, it breathed passion and pathos, and emotions high or tender, in a tongue native to the human heart, wherever educated.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Music is the most spiritual language for the human being.
— Celedonio Romero
