Compatible Quotes: On Language

Language is the dress of thought.—Samuel Johnson


The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.—George Orwell


Language is the light of the mind.—John Stuart Mill


Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.—Elizabeth Bowen


The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.—Lewis Thomas


I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.—Tom Lehrer
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