The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.

The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.

I speak two languages, Body and English.

I speak two languages, Body and English.

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found the time to conquer the world.

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found the time to conquer the world.

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

Language is a city to the building of which every human being
brought a stone.
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Language is a city to the building of which every human being
brought a stone.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson,

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

And who in time knows whither we may vent
The treasure of our tongue? To what strange shores
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And who in time knows whither we may vent
The treasure of our tongue? To what strange shores
This gain of our best glory shall be sent,
T' enrich unknowing nations with our stores?
What worlds in th' yet unformed Occident
May come refin'd with th' accents that are ours?

Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.

Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.