Language is the method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way.

1. The language we use influences the way we think.
Steven Pinker

2. To have another language is to possess a second soul
Anonymous

3. A riot is the language of the unheard.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

4. Do you know what a foreign accent is1 It's a sign of bravery.
Amy Chua

5. I learned American Sign Language in college and seemed to pick it up rather quickly. I really love to sign and wish that I had more friends to sign with.
Candace Kita

6. Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.
Michael Gove

7. With languages, you are at home anywhere.
Edmund De Waal

8. Without language, thought is a vague, uncharted nebula.
Ferdinand de Saussure

9. Experience A New Language Answering all the Whys and the Hows To Getting Started
Anonymous

10. Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky

11. Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.
Mason Cooley

12. One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way.
Frank Smith

13. Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.
Rumi

14. If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Nelson Mandela

15. Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.
Roger Bacon

16. With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere. Edmund de Waal

17. To have another language is to possess a second soul.
Charlemagne

18. To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.
Frantz Fanon

19. Languages is the key
Anonymous

20. I try to talk to everybody. If you can't speak English, I'm going to do sign language.
Helen Wilson

21. Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
William Golding

22. Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.
Rita Mae Brown

23. I mightn’t be a shaman in the indigenous sense, but as a world-bridger between Western culture and the indigenous world, I knew I was playing a shamanistic role. Language was my medicine and with it I would do my best to record my awakening and help heal with my words… The journey isn’t over yet.”
Rak Razam

24. Because Spanish is a feeling-based language that comes first from the heart, just as English is a thinking-based language that comes first from the head.
Victor Villaseñor

25. High thoughts must have high language.
Aristophanes

26. English is an almost grammarless language.
Richard Grant White

27. Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.
Angela Carter

28. A man who knows two languages is worth two men
Anonymous

29. Ultimately, words fall anyway, so what a shame if we allow that which defies Language to seprate us one from the other.
Joshua David Stone

30. If you want to find the truth, do not listen to the words coming to you. Rather see the body language of the speaker. It speaks the fact not audible.
Bhavesh Chhatbar

31. Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.
Michael Gove

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32. I’m a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which goes against the trend in fiction.
Jesmyn Ward

33. Language arts come alive with students vying with one another for the chance to put their work on the SMART Board. Learning should be fun, and technology helps me make it so.
Melissa Brown

34. It’s usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called sanud: the profitless consideration of unsettling yet inconsequential things.
Nick Harkaway

35. A language which we do not know is a fortress sealed.
Marcel Proust

36. The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau

37. There are hundreds of languages in the world, but a smile speaks them all
Anonymous

38. Language is the light of the mind.
John Stuart Mill

39. Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
William Butler Yeats

40. To learn any foreign language first you need to fall in love with it
Anonymous

41. The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination it is the property of the language itself.
Derek Walcott

42. Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
Robert Benchley

43. The Oxford Dictionary has named “selfie” the word of the year, narrowly beating out “twerk.” In a related story, the funeral for the English language is this Saturday.
Anonymous

44. The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

45. A different language is a different vision of life.
Federico Fellini

46. He who knows no foreign language, knows nothing of his own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

47. Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.
Rita Mae Brown

48. Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

49. Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.
Gates McFadden

50. Learning another language is like becoming another person.
Haruki Murakami

51. Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.
Alan Moore

52. Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.
William Gibson

53. The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

54. Learn a new language and get a new soul
Anonymous

55. A different language is a different vision of life.
Federico Fellini

56. Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world.
Rumi

57. You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.
Geoffrey Willans

58. Everyone smiles in the same language
Anonymous

59. Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.
Flora Lewis

60. Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain

61. You live a new life for every new language you speak. If you know only one language, you live only once
Anonymous

62. Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs
Nelson Mandela