“Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.”
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.”
William S. Burroughs
2 quotes“Language is a virus from outer space”
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.”
Nietzsche
1 quote“Every word is a prejudice.”
Madeleine L'Engle
1 quote“We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think concep...”
Anne Rice
1 quote“Who could trust language?”
Galileo
1 quote“Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come...”
Margaret Atwood
1 quote“Where do the words gowhen we have said them?”