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A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.
Speak the language of high intelligence, and thus you speak the language of God.
Astrology is a language. If you understand this language, the sky speaks to you.
If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.
I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.
The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language.
Money can be more of a barrier between people than language or race or religion.
Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart.
French: why does this language even exist? Everyone there speaks english anyway.
The wild woman is fluent in the language of dreams, images, passion, and poetry.
Photography is and is not a language; language also is and is not a photography.
Poems tend to have instructions for how to read them embedded in their language.
Remember - the universal language is not texted, emailed, or spoken. It is felt.
Language designed to impress builds a gulf. Language to express builds a bridge.
An answer in words is delusive; it is really no answer to the questions you ask.
Poetry is an art practiced with the terribly plastic material of human language.
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
I love the right words. I think economy and precision of language are important.
If our language is watered down, then mankind becomes less human, and less free.
I am attached to the French language. I will defend the ubiquitous use of French.
Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company.
Learning Indian mannerisms, how to wear saris, and the language were a challenge.
Without a constant misuse of language there cannot be any discovery, any progress
Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience.
The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
It makes sense to me that the polyglot wouldn't know what language he dreamed in.
Three problems we have: lack of boundaries, insufficient language, incompletions.
We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
If you do not know his language, you will never understand a foreigner's silence.
There is your audience. There is the language. There are the words that they use.
The heart has its own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak.
The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.
Once I started singing, I realized it was a language I'd forgotten I could speak.
The way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything.
The stars have their own language, you know. If you're careful, you can learn it.
Sometimes before people know what they're saying, they already love the language.
When people speak their own language you get a much better sense of who they are.
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
And how does God speak to you?" "In the language of everything that is beautiful.
Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.
We sleep in language if language does not come to wake us up with its strangeness.
We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words.
Language is the leading principle which unites or separates the tribes of mankind.
Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution.
Poetry is ... the physical enactment of a process of knowing by means of language.
Old Marley was dead as a doornail... The wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.
Music is a simulation of something, but language is the greatest thing we possess.
The real problem in speech is not precise language. The problem is clear language.
Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, And men talk only to conceal the mind.
A writer can have only one language, if language is going to mean anything to him.