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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

the debasement of thought cannot be separated from the debasement of language. — Anonymous

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 the mother of thought, not its handmaiden. — Karl Kraus

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

The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself. — Noam Chomsky

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

Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation. — Dick Cavett

Let language be the divining rod that finds the sources of thought. — Karl Kraus

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

How beautiful to touch another's soul with a word, a gesture, a thought. — Marty Rubin

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

The communication of ideas requires a similitude of thought and language ... — Edward Gibbon

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

Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade. — Samuel Johnson

A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process. — Henry Rollins

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

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. — George Orwell

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

Profound thought is conveyed in language of very great simplicity and purity. — Charlotte Mason

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. — Robert G. Ingersoll

Somehow, we were passing the boundaries of language and finding clarity in shared thought, even if we were just talking about beer! — Gerry Abbey

Equestrian, by the by, is the gayest word in the English language. In fact, I thought Brokeback Mountain should have been called Two Equestrians. — Lewis Black

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

We think in language. We think in words. Language is the landscape of thought. — George Carlin

And that's when I knew she was not doing this on purpose; that her stories came from a place deep within her, beyond thought and formal language. — Clara Chow

I went back to look for you.
Not understanding the language of hello,
I thought I'd speak it just the same. — Rod McKuen

We should resume our language to science
and leave the rest to silence — Natasha Tsakos

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

A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen. — Paul Graham

When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get them. — Etgar Keret

In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out. — Robert Morgan

Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought. — William James

I thought it was respectful to each country to sing in their language. — Nana Mouskouri

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

I remember a song we used to sing, "Columbia, Gem of the Ocean." But I thought it was, "Columbus, Jump in the Ocean. — Lisa See

It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

The thought of today cannot be expressed in the language of yesterday. — Lawren Harris

I had thought that words were instruments of precision. Now I know that they devour the world, leaving nothing in its place. — Steven Millhauser

G-rated language is making me a less angry person. Behavior shapes emotion. — A. J. Jacobs

A word devoid of thought is a dead thing, and a thought unembodied in words remains a shadow. — Lev S. Vygotsky

Without doubt, the mightiest thought the mind can entertain is the thought of God, and the weightest word in any language is its word for God. — A.W. Tozer

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

This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever thought to use language. — Rumi

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

Control language and you control thought; control thought and you control action; control action and you control the world. — Peter Kreeft

Our exclusive dependence on rational thought and language has obscured our natural ability to sense the flow of energy. — Ilchi Lee