Corruption Quote by George Orwell

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

— George Orwell

If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and…

— George Orwell

The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. ... In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts…. If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A…

— Rashid Khalidi

Language is froth on the surface of thought.

— John McCarthy

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

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

— Karl Kraus

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

— William James

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.

— Johann Georg Hamann

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

— Leslie Lamport

Language is the medium of our thoughts.

— Frederick Lenz