Communication Quote by Herbert Marcuse

Speech is but the incorporation of thought.

— Joseph Joubert

Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both

— John Andrew Holmes

Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.

— Antoine Rivarol

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

— T. E. Hulme

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

Suppose we think while we talk or write--I mean, as we normally do--we shall not in general say that we think quicker than we…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

The highest thoughts are those which are least dependent on language, and the dignity of any composition and praise to which it is entitled…

— John Ruskin

Speech is the index of the mind.

— Seneca the Younger

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

“The most important step in developing skillful speech is to think before speaking.”

— Allan Lokos

Thought is the fountain of speech.

— Chrysippus

“Human thought elaborates itself with the progress of intelligence. Speech is the harvest of thought,”

— Grenville Kleiser