Quotes About Language

I've always noticed that if you speak the truth in a rather silly way nobody believes you.

A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.

I never paid you a compliment, Rachel, in my life. Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. But hopeless love, dearest, always speaks the truth.

Muslims have different meanings for the same words that we use. They are so convinced of the "truth" of Islam that they do not perceive Jihad/terrorism, or dhimmitude as violence.

The truth that could be extracted from words was such a fluctuating, relative truth.

... the truth is exactly that which can't be got into words. We are forced to lie, a little or, if we are inferior, much.

The doctrines of the Bible are often not clothed in the language of strict truth, but in that which was fittest to convey to a rude and ignorant people the practical essentials of the doctrine.

Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!

If names are not correct, then language is not in accord with the truth of things. If language is not in accord with the truth of things, then affairs cannot be carried out successfully.

Whatever you say about something, it is not.

One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.

This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.

Language can be very adept at hiding the truth.

A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative thought.

Words are finite organs of the infinite mind. They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth. They break, chop, and impoverish it.

...words are the gateway to reality, the means by which we engage with the objective truth beyond ourselves.

People say that I can't speak French. C'est pas vraiment placé. I'm getting better every day. I just have to keep practising. That's the truth.

Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.

It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.

Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.- Every word is a prejudice.

Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.

Eternal truth needs a human language that alters with the spirit of the times.

Anything that is said is not the truth. It is a statement of truth, and no statement is the truth.

True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.