Quotes About Language

For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that language by which we speak it.

Fair and balanced is doublespeak for bite-out-chunks-of-truth until only irrelevancy is left, byte-sized, entertaining irrelevancy.

Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.

The truth is, just to hear other people speaking Italian is really worth it. It keeps the sound in your ear.

The theory of truth is a series of truisms.

There is a language of love, which is to say, a truth that does not tell all and a lie that does not deceive.

Dictionary: Opinion presented as truth in alphabetical order.

Truth speaks best in the language of poetry and symbolism, I think.

Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.

The truth of no truths becomes, inevitably, truth: a way of naming being, language, and culture that guards the boundaries of thought against claims it has not validated.

Persia is very different from the Arab Middle East in terms of architecture and language. Even though we think of them as one big Middle Eastern area, in truth, Persia's quite distinct.

I love the way dates in a text make us think that truth will follow.

Moral claims aren't, as a class, truth-value apt or not.

And I have a dream of a New American Language, one with a little bit more Spanish. I have a dream of a new pop music, that tells the truth with a good beat and some nice harmonies.

Writing is performative - and while, yes, the words in essence will be there "forever," poems are often about ecstatic moments rather than trying to pin down a particular truth of an event.

I had always suspected language was quite limited in its ability to communicate the intricate mysteries of truth.

Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?" "So easy that, to tell you the truth, I am seldom perfectly sober.

Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language.

Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses to tell the truth in French or in German.

Poetry is when words are robbed of their attributed truth.

Hegel says that Truth is a great word and the thing is greater still. With Dave we never seemed to get past the word.

In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense.

Truth is one, the sages speak of it by many names.

Not even the most devastating truth can be told; it must be evoked.