Adversity Quote by Elizabeth Bowen

It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an…

— Edward Sapir

Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes.

— James Gleick

I do not so easily think in words.... after being hard at work having arrived at results that are perfectly clear... I have to…

— Francis Galton

Thinking is not the ability to manipulate language; it’s the ability to manipulate concepts.

— Leslie Lamport

The fact is that if you have not developed language, you simply don't have access to most of human experience, and if you don't…

— Noam Chomsky

Many things are mechanical and should remain mechanical. But mechanical thoughts, mechanical feelings—that is what has to be studied and can and should be…

— P.D. Ouspensky

The interpretation of thought as ""inner speech" has taken different forms, and has been used to clarify a variety of problems--thus problems pertaining to…

— Wilfrid Sellars

Language is the medium of our thoughts.

— Frederick Lenz

There is a kind of nonlinguistic thought going on which we are trying to represent in language, and we know that sometimes we fail.

— Noam Chomsky

“Handling and use by able minds give value to a language, not so much by innovating as by filling it out with more vigorous…

— Michel de Montaigne

The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.

— Joan Didion

Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery

— Mark Amidon