Limits Of Language Quotes

#1. Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?

J.M. Coetzee

#2. We find out soon enough that the universe is not capricious: the child who learns that fire burns and knife-edges cut know that there are inexorable limits set upon his desires. Language must conform to the discovered regularities and irregularities of experience.

Max Black

#3. As vocabulary is reduced , so are the number of feelings you can express, the number of events you can describe, the number of the things you can identify! Not only understanding is limited, but also experience. Man grows by language. Whenever he limits language he retrogresses!

Sheri S. Tepper

#4. The limits of your language are the limits of your world.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#5. The limits of our cognition are not defined by the limits of our language.

Elliot W. Eisner

#6. Anthony Doerr again takes language beyond mortal limits.

Elissa Schappell

#7. The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.

Italo Calvino

#8. I was one of those kids who always wrote.

Alice McDermott

#9. Although Wittgenstein did say, "The limits of my language mean the limits of my world."

Louisa Hall

#10. My emotions were arrivals and departures, nonstop insignificances speeding through a station.

Matthew Aaron Goodman

#11. We are imperfect beings in a very imperfect world, and the one thing we can count on is that things will go wrong, and that each and every one of us will have problems.

Bob Parsons

#12. While I'm grateful for the freedom to express one's self, I've learned there are limits to what language is appropriate and I'm deeply sorry for how these lyrics could be interpreted.

Psy

#13. The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#14. The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#15. Words have no language which can utter the secrets of love; and beyond the limits of expression is the expounding of desire.

Hafez

#16. When I saw the Cameron Crowe film We Bought A Zoo, it got me to thinking about how our lives are structured the same way as the zoo that was purchased by Benjamin Mee totally changed

Mike Vardy

#17. I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.

Mark Strand

#18. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.

Elliot W. Eisner

#19. Your language indicates--and limits--what you think.

Jonathan Price

#20. To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.

Octavio Paz

#21. Unlike the ambiguity of life, the ambiguity of language does reach a limit.

Mason Cooley

#22. The topics which language limits us to aren't much worth discussing in the first place.
(attrib: F.L. Vanderson)

Mort W. Lumsden

#23. For those who have true love, have no limits of expressing their love to one another yet it is a sad fact that those who are searching for love, fear expressing their love to even those who love them.

Auliq Ice

#24. Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.

Toni Morrison

#25. English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.

Yael Naim

#26. Because arrogance is born in personal vanity, arrogant people are driven without mercy. They can never get enough power to fill the soul's needs or enough respect to overcome the fear that they deserve less than they are getting.

Lewis B. Smedes

#27. Puzzles lead to logical answers; mysteries often force us to stretch language to its limits in an attempt to describe a reality that is just too great to take in properly.

Alister E. McGrath

#28. Another tug and a yank at my chestnut curls and she snarls at me, "You are so much like her."
This is something my mother often says and never explains. Though it is a great mystery to me it is also a blessing, for she always hurries from the room after saying it.

Gwenn Wright

#29. Language helps form the limits of our reality.

Dale Spender

#30. The 2 timeless drivers that underpin the behavior of every generation: the need to belong and the need to be significant. The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#31. Socialism can only be put into practice only by methods which most socialists disapprove.

Friedrich August Von Hayek

#32. Ludwig Wittgenstein (1953), went so far as to say that the limits of our language were, indeed, the limits of our world.

Anonymous

#33. There are a lot of human experiences that challenge the limits of our language," she said. "That's one of the reasons that we have poetry.

Ava Dellaira