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Thought is the bud, language the blossom and action the fruit behind it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.
— John Henry Newman
If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do.
— Daniel Kahneman
A propositional sign, applied and thought out, is a thought. A thought is a proposition with a sense.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Clear language engenders clear thought, and clear thought is the most important benefit of education.
— Richard Mitchell
The term "political correctness" has always appalled me, reminding me of Orwell's "Thought Police" and fascist regimes.
— Helmut Newton
Only through action, through living, can we escape from the prison of thought and language.
— Marty Rubin
Asked nicely, and that didn't seem to work. So I thought you'd be useful. Your language is more uncivilized than mine.
— Krista Ritchie
Thought is metaphoric, and proceeds by comparison, and the metaphors of language derive therefrom.
— I. A. Richards
Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art.
— Oscar Wilde
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
— Salman Rushdie
Thought is prior to language and consists in the simultaneous presentation to the mind of two different images.
— T. E. Hulme
That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.
— George Boole
Language is our body and our breath, our world and our thought, our perception and even out unconscious.
— Philippe Sollers
I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put into words.
— Karl Kraus
It's a precious thing to be communicating to children, helping them discover the gift of language and thought.
— Richard Scarry
Expression and thought are inextricably linked: crude language permits only crude thinking.
— Sarah Churchwell
You cannot begin to deal with terms, propositions, and arguments - the elements of thought - until you can penetrate beneath the surface of language.
— Mortimer J. Adler
To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness.
— Alice Sebold
The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.
— Chinua Achebe
Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.
— Mark Hopkins
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
— William James
A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.
— Robert G. Ingersoll
The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we are thereby led into a new world of tradition and thought and feeling.
— Havelock Ellis
Control language and you control thought; control thought and you control action; control action and you control the world.
— Peter Kreeft
Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.
— Humphry Davy
He felt the logic of grammar, and he thought he perceived how it spread out from itself, permeating the language and supporting human thought.
— John Edward Williams
