"Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth."

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"Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth."

Explore more quotes by Ferdinand de Saussure

"It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is evident that this science can make a contribution to a range of studies that will be of interest to almost anyone."

Science, Interest, Study, Will

"It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time."

Time, Language

"In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not fail to wonder what exactly these connections showed, and how they should be interpreted in concrete terms."

Fact, Wonder

"Whitney wanted to eradicate the idea that in the case of a language we are dealing with a natural faculty; in fact, social institutions stand opposed to natural institutions."

Creativity, Idea, Fact, Language

"Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations."

Memory, Speech, Words

"The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages."

History, Business, Study, Will

"The very special place that a language occupies among institutions is undeniable, but there is much more to be said-, a comparison would tend rather to bring out the differences."

Language,

"Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another."

Language, Laws, Will

"Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages."

Language, Psychology, Will

"Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar."

Language, Grammar

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"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."

Mark Twain, American Author

Truth, Denial

"Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima."

Pablo Picasso, Spanish Artist

Truth, Genius, Negative, Positive, Value

"What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice."

Ronald Reagan, American President

Truth, People, Choice, Country, Now

"Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them."

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

Truth, Society, Lie, Inferiority

"Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

Truth, Falsehood, Light, Twilight

"There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time.""

Abraham Lincoln, American Politician

Truth, Time, Daughter, Name, Now

"When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people."

Mark Twain, American Author

Truth, People, Being

"A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better."

Stephen Leacock, Canadian Economist

Truth, Argument

"We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral."

Epictetus, Greek Philosopher

Truth, Lies, Lying

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

Truth, Men, Nothing