Quotes about thought and Language

The communication of ideas requires a similitude of thought and language . . . Votes: 3

Our exclusive dependence on rational thought and language has obscured our natural ability to sense the flow of energy. Votes: 3

Dying, we tell ourselves, is like going to sleep. This figure of speech occurs very commonly in everyday thought and language, as well as in the literature of many cultures and many ages. It was apparently quite common even in the time of the ancient Greeks. Votes: 3

Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation. Votes: 2

Expression and thought are inextricably linked: crude language permits only crude thinking. Votes: 2

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow. Votes: 2

Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking. Votes: 2

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language. Votes: 2

Language is handy, but we humans have social and emotional connections that transcend words and are communicated - and understood - without conscious thought. Votes: 2

Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting. Votes: 2

I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.' Votes: 2

Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts. Votes: 2

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication. Votes: 2

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language. Votes: 2

There is a diversity of thought and philosophy, diversity of languages and dialects, diversity of political spectrum, and there's a diversity of taste for food. I don't label or characterize Jews in any way. Votes: 2

Language and written language are the only real way we have to see inside another person's thoughts and to know what makes another person human. Without writing, we just wouldn't have that kind of access. Votes: 2

That means presenting the issues in certain ways that will appeal to those people and then becoming a prisoner of your own language and thought process. That has always happened - it's just been intensified. Votes: 2

At eight, I made a commitment to poetry. Until then, I thought I'd be a policeman. But I went a whole night without sleeping, and the next day the world had changed. It needed a different language. Votes: 2

Possible ideas and thoughts are vast in number. A distinct word for every distinct idea and thought would require a vast vocabulary. The problem in language is to express many ideas and thoughts with comparatively few words. Votes: 2

All the dialogue on tape, and we'd play the tape in performance. Then I thought it'd be interesting if the actor's repeated what they heard on the tape, but at a slower speed, so we'd get a web of language. Votes: 2

I think it's important and I think it's true that our life experience is going to be about our attitude, our thoughts, our beliefs, our speech and our actions. We can transform our life experience simply by changing our language. Votes: 2

You can write a radical Norwegian or a conservative Norwegian. And when I changed to a conservative Norwegian, I gained this distance or objectivity in the language. The gap released something in me, and in the writing, which made it possible for the protagonist to think thoughts I had never myself thought. Votes: 2

Chimps can do all sorts of things we thought that only we could do - like tool-making and abstraction and generalisation. They can learn a language - sign language - and they can use the signs. But when you think of our intellects, even the brightest chimp looks like a very small child. Votes: 2

Language disguises thought. Votes: 0

Language is the dress of thought. Votes: 0

Language is the close-fitting dress of thought. Votes: 0

Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought. Votes: 0

Language is the picture and counterpart of thought. Votes: 0

Without language, thought is a vague, uncharted nebula. Votes: 0

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden. Votes: 0

TV shapes thought as surely as language shapes it. Votes: 0

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. Votes: 0

The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself. Votes: 0

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought. Votes: 0

Profound thought is conveyed in language of very great simplicity and purity. Votes: 0

The thought of today cannot be expressed in the language of yesterday. Votes: 0

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it. Votes: 0

Let language be the divining rod that finds the sources of thought. Votes: 0

I thought it was respectful to each country to sing in their language. Votes: 0

Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought. Votes: 0

We think in language. We think in words. Language is the landscape of thought. Votes: 0

Thought is metaphoric, and proceeds by comparison, and the metaphors of language derive therefrom. Votes: 0

Clear language engenders clear thought, and clear thought is the most important benefit of education. Votes: 0

Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade. Votes: 0

I turned to photography because I thought it was the dominant language of our culture. Votes: 0

There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language Votes: 0

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language. Votes: 0

There are no simple words. I don't know why I thought I could hide anything behind language. Votes: 0

Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it. Votes: 0

Thought is prior to language and consists in the simultaneous presentation to the mind of two different images. Votes: 0

It's a precious thing to be communicating to children, helping them discover the gift of language and thought. Votes: 0

Language is the alchemy of transforming a thought into a word, and the word into a new reality. Votes: 0

Language is our body and our breath, our world and our thought, our perception and even out unconscious. Votes: 0

If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do. Votes: 0

It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought. Votes: 0

You're kidding. I thought all geniuses read Latin. Isn't that the international language for smart people?"-Shane (Glass Houses) Votes: 0

Control language and you control thought; control thought and you control action; control action and you control the world. Votes: 0

Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought. Votes: 0

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true. Votes: 0

Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before. Votes: 0

To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness. Votes: 0

I’d thought I knew what beauty was in women; but she’d surpassed all the language I had for it. Votes: 0

Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton. Votes: 0

The constructions of language, which is to say the constructions of thought, are formed within experience, not the other way around. Votes: 0

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. Votes: 0

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. Votes: 0

I thought that strange syntax was the language of story books. I didn't realize those were poor translations... English from Edwardian times. Votes: 0

Observe how every truth and every error, each a thought of someone's mind, clothes itself with societies, houses, cities, language, ceremonies, newspapers Votes: 0

Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language. Votes: 0

Somehow, we were passing the boundaries of language and finding clarity in shared thought, even if we were just talking about beer! Votes: 0

When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages. Votes: 0

I have often thought that unselfishness combined in one word more of the teachings of the Bible than any other in the language. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. Votes: 0

When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get them. Votes: 0

Equestrian, by the by, is the gayest word in the English language. In fact, I thought Brokeback Mountain should have been called Two Equestrians. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put into words. Votes: 0

A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting. Votes: 0

I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought; but it's been my experience that a good many more use it instead of thought. Votes: 0

If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better. Votes: 0

I thought that subtitles are boring because they're there generally to serve us with information to make you understand what people are saying in a different language. Votes: 0

Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing. Votes: 0

There is no question that the language of "felt thought" must be quarried from our personal depths. Like the best gold, it does not lie on the surface. Votes: 0

The truth of no truths becomes, inevitably, truth: a way of naming being, language, and culture that guards the boundaries of thought against claims it has not validated. Votes: 0

Reality is beyond speech and thought. Only that which can be expressed in words is being said. But what cannot be put into language is indeed That which IS. Votes: 0

I'm proposing on one level that hallucinogens be thought of as almost as social pheromones that regulate the rate at which language develops, and therefore regulate human culture generally. Votes: 0