Thought Language Quotes
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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
I'd thought I knew what beauty was in women; but she'd surpassed all the language I had for it.
— Anne Rice
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
Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.
— Bertrand Russell
Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
— Elizabeth Bowen
Language disguises thought.
— 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
Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought.
— Thomas Carlyle
The words or the language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought
— Albert Einstein
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
I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.
— Muriel Barbery
It wasn't that Henry was less of himself in English. He was less of himself out loud. His native language was thought.
— Maggie Stiefvater
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are no simple words. I don't know why I thought I could hide anything behind language.
— Patricia A. McKillip
Grammarians make no new thoughts, but thoughts make new grammar.
— Dagobert D. Runes
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
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
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
Thought is prior to language and consists in the simultaneous presentation to the mind of two different images.
— T. E. Hulme
Language is our body and our breath, our world and our thought, our perception and even out unconscious.
— Philippe Sollers
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
— Salman Rushdie
In absolute incommunicableness it stood apart, a thought, a system of thought which as yet had no symbol in spoken language
— Fitz Hugh Ludlow
Thought is a dead end; language is a merry-go-round.
— Marty Rubin
Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art.
— Oscar Wilde
You're kidding. I thought all geniuses read Latin. Isn't that the international language for smart people?-Shane (Glass Houses)
— Rachel Caine
There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language
— George Orwell
I thought I'd miss cursing, but I actually don't. I still feel like I can get my point across without real harsh language.
— Kevin Dillon
Without language, thought is a vague, uncharted nebula.
— Ferdinand De Saussure
Without language, they have no lies. Thus they have no future.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.
— Chinua Achebe
To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness.
— Alice Sebold
Language is the close-fitting dress of thought.
— Richard Chenevix Trench
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
I will never die, thought the cake to itself, in even simpler terms, as cakes did not have sophisticated use of language.
— Aimee Bender
Expression and thought are inextricably linked: crude language permits only crude thinking.
— Sarah Churchwell
Language is the dress of thought.
— Samuel Johnson
It's a precious thing to be communicating to children, helping them discover the gift of language and thought.
— Richard Scarry
I thought that strange syntax was the language of story books. I didn't realize those were poor translations ... English from Edwardian times.
— Sandra Cisneros
God blesses giving, so every use of language, down to the lowliest tweet, ought to be thought of as a gift to others.
— Douglas Wilson
An instrument that sometimes expresses thought, sometimes obscures thought, but most often replaces thought.
— Evan Esar
The complexity of language, he thought to himself, lies not in its subject matter but in our knotted understanding.
— Alexander Theroux
Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.
— Robert G. Ingersoll
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
Language is froth on the surface of thought.
— John McCarthy
TV shapes thought as surely as language shapes it.
— Jennifer Stone
I went back to look for you.Not understanding the language of hello,
I thought I'd speak it just the same. — Rod McKuen
But fidelity to language is often infidelity to thought.
— Leon Ma. Guerrero
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
Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.
— W. H. Auden
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
— William James
Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.
— Mark Hopkins
Will America be the death of English? I'm glad I asked me that. My well-thought-out mature judgment is that it will.
— Edwin Newman
It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
I had thought that words were instruments of precision. Now I know that they devour the world, leaving nothing in its place.
— Steven Millhauser
A word devoid of thought is a dead thing, and a thought unembodied in words remains a shadow.
— Lev S. Vygotsky
More Latin? I was going to need a fucking guidebook to keep track of a language I thought was as dead as my mother.
— T.J. Klune
Progressives' don't just redefine (and valorize) deviancy; they insist on renaming it, too.
— Kathy Shaidle
I turned to photography because I thought it was the dominant language of our culture.
— Sarah Charlesworth
Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton.
— Terence McKenna
The language in which we express our ideas has a strong influence on our thought processes.
— Donald Knuth
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
I have often thought that unselfishness combined in one word more of the teachings of the Bible than any other in the language.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.
— Humphry Davy
