Quotes on Culture And Language

If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.

We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.

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

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

Language is wine upon the lips.

Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.