Ideas Quote by George Carlin

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

— George Carlin

Language does our thinking for us.

— Kenneth Burke

Language is the medium of our thoughts.

— Frederick Lenz

The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.

— J. Michael Straczynski

We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.

— Benjamin Lee Whorf

Language surely does affect our thoughts, rather than just labeling them for the sake of labeling them. Most obviously, language is the conduit through…

— Steven Pinker

Language is froth on the surface of thought.

— John McCarthy

Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.

— Mark Hopkins

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

— Humphry Davy

Our thoughts, our language, are always at a distance from whatever they're trying to describe. We have other kinds of languages, like mathematics, like…

— John Edgar Wideman

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

— William James