"Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language."

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"The Germans and I no longer speak the same language."

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Carl Sagan, American Scientist

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"Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity."

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"A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul."

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"Gracious Providence, to whom I owe all my powers, why didst thou not withhold some of those blessings I possess, and substitute in their place a feeling of self-confidence and contentment?"

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"The Germans and I no longer speak the same language."

"We may come to Jesus and ask Him; He will know all about it; if He comes to a little child, he will adapt himself to the language and capacity of a little child."

"The winged word. The mercurial word. The word that is both moth and lamp. The word that is itself and more. the associative word light with meanings. The word not netted by meaning. The exact word wide. The word not whore nor cenobite. The word unlied."

"It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language."

"My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language."

"With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin."

"Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis good works make the man."

"Perhaps the locale of the subjunctive mood willone day be found. Will Latins turn out to be extravagantly endowed and English-speaking peoples significantly short-changed in this minor piece of brain anatomy?"

"I was always influenced by language."

"It is one of the aims of linguistics to define itself, to recognise what belongs within its domain. In those cases where it relies upon psychology, it will do so indirectly, remaining independent."

Explore more quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity."

"A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul."

"Gracious Providence, to whom I owe all my powers, why didst thou not withhold some of those blessings I possess, and substitute in their place a feeling of self-confidence and contentment?"

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