“Who could trust language?”
Others on Language
Ludwig Wittgenstein
9 quotes“The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.”
Goethe
2 quotes“Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2 quotes“Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language.”
David Mitchell
2 quotes“London is a language. I guess all places are.”
Lewis Carroll
2 quotes“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more...”
Alfred Tennyson
2 quotes“For words like Nature half reveal And half conceal the Soul within.”
William S. Burroughs
2 quotes“Language is a virus from outer space”
George Orwell
1 quote“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
Nicola Yoon
1 quote“Names are powerful things.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
1 quote“There are worse prisons than words.”
Plato
1 quote“If you want to understand language, spend less time in the library with Plato and more time on the buses with people.”
Cassandra Clare
1 quote“We live and breathe words.”