Quotes about Language
The laity ought to understand the faith, and since the doctrines of our faith are in the Scriptures, believers should have the Scriptures in a language familiar to the people, and to this end the Holy Ghost endued them with knowledge of all tongues.
- John Wycliffe
The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
- Victor Hugo
Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.
- John Henry Newman
There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge
- Virginia Woolf
The man who speaks with primordial images, speaks with a thousand tongues.
- Carl Jung
Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.
- Publilius Syrus
With words we govern men.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Your life tomorrow will be determined by the words you speak today.
- Terri Savelle Foy
All the reading of weight-loss books and purchasing of fitness equipment won't change a thing until you first guard your words.
- Terri Savelle Foy
Change What You're Saying and You'll Change What You're Seeing
- Terri Savelle Foy
Don't use your words to describe your situation; use your words to change your situation!" — Joel Osteen
- Terri Savelle Foy