1.
The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
Galileo Galilei
God has inscribed the principles of nature in a mathematical dialect.
2.
To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it's written, the language of Mathematics.
Galileo Galilei
To decipher the Cosmos, one must comprehend the dialect in which it is composed, the tongue of Arithmetic.
3.
Language is the tool of the tools
Lev S. Vygotsky
'Vocabulary is the instrument of the instruments'
4.
To speak another language is to have another soul
Charlemagne
To converse in a different tongue is to possess an alternate essence.
5.
Not the ones speaking the same language, but the ones sharing the same feeling understand each other.
Rumi
'Those on the same wavelength comprehend each other, regardless of verbal communication.'
6.
Even though we can't communicate using the same language, we use music instead.
Kim Jong-hyun
Even though we don't share a common tongue, we resort to music as our means of expression.
7.
Silence is God's first language.
John of the Cross
Hushed tones are the divine's original tongue.
8.
I have not tolerated an atheist in the ranks of the SS. Every member has a deep faith in God, in what my ancestors called in their language Waralda, the ancient one, the one who is mightier than we are.
Heinrich Himmler
9.
We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.
Vladimir Lenin
We can and must compose in a dialect which instigates among the general population despise, aversion, and disdain for those who dissent.
10.
The basis of any independent government is a national language, and we can no longer continue aping our former colonizers ... those who feel they cannot do without English can as well pack up and go.
Jomo Kenyatta
11.
We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us.
Jerome Bruner
We are narrative beings, and as youngsters we gain tongue to articulate those tales that lie within us.
12.
Learning Indian mannerisms, how to wear saris, and the language were a challenge.
Amy Jackson
Absorbing Indian customs, donning traditional garments, and grasping the vernacular was a test.
13.
Reality is beyond speech and thought. Only that which can be expressed in words is being said. But what cannot be put into language is indeed That which IS.
Anandamayi Ma
Reality transcends language and comprehension. Words merely hint at its existence, but the true essence of it cannot be articulated. That which IS, is beyond words.
14.
Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.
Stevie Wonder
Tunes are a universe in their own right, possessing a lingo we all grasp.
15.
Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style.
Massimo Vignelli
Fashions fluctuate. Excellent design is a form of expression, not a mode.
16.
I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
Alexander Pushkin
I aspire to comprehend you, I delve into your abstruse dialect.
17.
Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Structure is a mode of expression. When you are highly proficient, you can be a bard.
18.
The more I think about language, the more it amazes me that people ever understand each other at all.
Kurt Gödel
The deeper I delve into linguistics, the more astounded I am that we can make ourselves understood.
19.
All language is but a poor translation.
Franz Kafka
All words are just inadequate substitutes.
20.
Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.
Meister Eckhart
Religious scholars may debate, but the visionaries of the world share a common tongue.
21.
Children must master the language of things before they master the language of words.
Friedrich Frobel
Kids must become conversant with the physical world before they comprehend the power of language.
22.
The heart has its own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak.
Rumi
The soul has its own articulation. The spirit comprehends a hundred thousand dialects to communicate.
23.
God only speaks to those who understand the language
Albert Hofmann
Divinity converses exclusively with those who comprehend its idiom.
25.
God's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation.
Thomas Keating
26.
Symbolism is the language of the Mysteries. By symbols men have ever sought to communicate to each other those thoughts which transcend the limitations of language.
Manly Hall
27.
Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
Duke Ellington
28.
Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist.
Anais Nin
29.
If you're offended by any word in any language, it's probably because your parents were unfit to raise a child.
Doug Stanhope
30.
The divine communicates to us primarily through the language of the natural world. Not to hear the natural world is not to hear the divine.
Thomas Berry
31.
When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system.
John von Neumann
32.
I can fluently speak five languages: English, emoji, sexting, sarcasm and sass.
Tyler Oakley
33.
We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.
Slavoj Žižek
34.
You cannot use butterfly language to communicate with caterpillars
Timothy Leary
35.
Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the congenitally blind, to see with another person’s eyes.
Oliver Sacks
36.
Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four.
Terry Pratchett
37.
Because of our kinship in suffering, our channels of contact have always been charged with the language of the heart.
Bill W.
38.
Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language.
Roman Jakobson
39.
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
Walt Disney
40.
The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
Maria Montessori
41.
Music begins where the possibilities of language end.
Jean Sibelius
42.
Twitter's designed to reduce the language, directly out of 1984! It's Ingsoc!
Alex Jones
43.
Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.
Keith Richards
44.
I die for speaking the language of the angels.
Joan of Arc
45.
Arabic is the language of the Qur'an, but Arab culture is not the culture of Islam.
Tariq Ramadan
48.
Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
Claude Levi-Strauss
49.
European languages must not be considered diamonds displayed under a glass ball, dazzling us with their brilliance.
Cheikh Anta Diop
50.
While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.
Jose Rizal