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The Catholic faith never changes. But the language and mode of manifesting this one faith can change according to peoples, times and places.

Quotes by Francis Arinze

Move beyond the old assumptions, practices, and language that can be barriers to equal access.

Quotes by Frances Hesselbein

Practice self-awareness, self-evaluation, and self-improvement. If we are aware that our manners - language, behavior, and actions - are measured against our values and principles, we are able to more easily embody the philosophy, leadership is a matter of how...

Quotes by Frances Hesselbein

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

Quotes by Flora Lewis

To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is uniquely tailored to the French language and fits no other.

Quotes by Florence King

No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.

Quotes by Fisher Ames

As a journalist, I've been a professional watcher, picking up the body language and verbal tics that make us individuals and interesting to others.

Quotes by Fiona Barton

If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.

Quotes by Feng Zhang

A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.

Quotes by Ferdinand de Saussure

Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.

Quotes by Ferdinand de Saussure

Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.

Quotes by Ferdinand de Saussure

In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics.

Quotes by Ferdinand de Saussure

It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.

Quotes by Ferdinand de Saussure

Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.

Quotes by Ferdinand de Saussure

The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.

Quotes by Ferdinand de Saussure

The very special place that a language occupies among institutions is undeniable, but there is much more to be said-, a comparison would tend rather to bring out the differences.

Quotes by Ferdinand de Saussure

Whitney wanted to eradicate the idea that in the case of a language we are dealing with a natural faculty; in fact, social institutions stand opposed to natural institutions.

Quotes by Ferdinand de Saussure

The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.

Quotes by Ferdinand Marcos

What makes humans unique is that evolution gave us the most incredible and sophisticated vision system, motor system, and language system, and they all work together.

Quotes by Fei-Fei Li

A different language is a different vision of life.

Quotes by Federico Fellini

Frequently Asked Questions

What do these Language quotes explore?
This set looks at the limits of ordinary language for describing science, the case for more scientific language in public discourse, feeling outmatched by the sheer size of the English language, and wanting to master the technical language of a craft like directing. If you like exploring how words shape meaning, so is our Like collection.
Is there a quote about language struggling to describe science?
Yes — one quote says, "The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language."
Is there a quote calling for more scientific language in public life?
There is. One quote argues, "More scientific language and less diplomatic rhetoric may make this world even better." For more ideas along these lines, see our More collection.
Is there a quote about the English language being hard to keep up with?
Yes — one quote admits, "Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head." Shakespeare is famous for exploring love as much as language, and you can see more of that in our Love collection.
Is there a quote about wanting to master a craft's technical language?
Yes — one quote shares, "The producing thing has come quite naturally to me. I feel like for directing, I would like to be more technically-savvy. I want to have the language under my belt." For more reflections framed in first person, see our Me collection.

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