Quotes About Language

The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.

Often I must Speak otherwise than I Think. This is Called Diplomacy.

I don't speak, I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.

His voice was low, charged with unspeakable adjectives.

A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel... he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men... a good ruler has to learn his world's language... it's different for every world... the language of the rocks and growing things... the language you don't hear just with your ears... the Mystery of Life... not a problem to solve, but a reality to experience... Understanding must move with the flow of the process.

For them, 'mektub al mellah', as the Fremen say. The thing was written with salt, Irulan translated.

Inflection is the adjective of language. It carries the subtleties of delight and horror, the essence of culture and social process.

If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you believe the assumptions in the words which express the arguments. Such assumptions are often full of holes, but remain most precious to the convinced. – The Open-Ended Proof from the Panoplia Prophetica Leto's

Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build.

Beware jargon. It usually hides ignorance and carries little knowledge.

Often, I must speak otherwise than I think. That is called diplomacy.

I poke nothing at you except words. I do it without fear of offending because I have learned that you have no ears.

If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you believe the assumptions in the words which express the arguments. Such assumptions are often full of holes, but remain most precious to the convinced.

She didn't like the fact that people of both sietch and graben referred to Muad'Dib as Him.

Ali u istini je uvijek sadržana dvozna?nost rije?i kojima se ona izražava.

Their destination was Sietch Tabr—Stilgar's sietch. She turned the word over in her mind: sietch. It was a Chakobsa word, unchanged from the old hunting language out of countless centuries. Sietch: a meeting place in time of danger. The profound implications of the word and the language were just beginning to register with her after the tension of their encounter.

Za razumijevanje su potrebne rije?i. No neke stvari se ne mogu svesti na rije?i. A neke druge stvari se mogu doživjeti samo bez rije?i.

Often I must speak otherwise than I think," he said. "This is called diplomacy.

Languages build up to reflect specializations in a way of life. Each specialization may be recognized by its words, by its assumptions and sentence structures. Look for stoppages. Specializations represent places where life is being stopped, where the movement is dammed up and frozen.

Then she said a good ruler has to learn his world's language, that it's different for every world. And I thought she meant they didn't speak Galach on Arrakis, but she said that wasn't it at all. She said she meant the language of the rocks and growing things, the language you don't hear just with your ears. And I said that's what Dr. Yueh calls the Mystery of Life.

She said a thing.

If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you believe the assumptions in the words which express the arguments.

Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is an agreement and a tradition upon which to build.

But the prophetic instant releases something of infinite portent and power. The universe undergoes a ghostly shift. Thus, the wise prophet conceals actuality behind shimmering labels. The uninitiated then believe the prophetic language is ambiguous. The listener distrusts the prophetic messenger. Instinct tells you how the utterance blunts the power of such words. The best prophets lead you up to the curtain and let you peer through for yourself.