When the eyes say one thing and the tongue another, the practiced person relies on the language of the first. Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read Mark Twain quotes All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. Robert Louis Stevenson quotes Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. Kahlil Gibran quotes Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone. Albert Einstein quotes If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything. Confucius quotes Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language. William Bennett quotes It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in a language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. Thomas Hardy quotes Language is the dress of thought. Samuel Johnson quotes It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to. The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures. Vincent Van Gogh quotes |