language

That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.

- George Boole

Language is the filter through which the soul of a people reaches into the material world.

- Wade Davis

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

- Winston Churchill

In speaking, one should avoid scurrility, affectations, and cant. What people really want to hear is truth - it is the exciting thing - speak the simple truth.

- Bourke Cockran

It is slothful not to compress your thoughts.

- Winston Churchill

You who read me, are you sure of understanding my language?

- Jorge Luis Borges

Tell all the truth, but tell it slant.

- Emily Dickinson

Eloquence is like a flame: it requires fuel to feed it, motion to excite it, and it brightens as it burns.

- William Pitt the Younger

Knowledge travels in the baggage of language.

- Jurgen Osterhammel

Language, the first and most basic tool of culture, is also its truest mirror.

- Richard Ben Kramer

Humankind is defined by language; but civilization is defined by writing.

- Peter Daniels

Language changes constantly but writing is generally fixed.

- Peter Daniels

Cognitively as well as sociologically, writing underpins ‘civilization’, the culture of cities.

- Jack Goody

Now as regards to the shape of foreign letters, they are confused and irregular. In the construction of their dots and lines, one misses the balance of the pictorial characters, the significance of the compounds, and the deep meaning of the characters.

- Shinoya Tōin

They crossed from past to future on bridges of language.

- John Dower