Comparison Quote by I. A. Richards

Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.

— Mark Hopkins

I think that metaphor really is a key to explaining thought and language. The human mind comes equipped with an ability to penetrate the…

— Steven Pinker

Metaphor is embodied in language.

— Dennis Potter

Language is froth on the surface of thought.

— John McCarthy

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

— T. E. Hulme

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

— Bertrand Russell

Early human thought proceeded by metaphor,

— Gerald Edelman

“There is a reciprocal influence between thought and language. What we think molds the words we use, and the words we use react upon…

— Grenville Kleiser

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

— George Carlin

Metaphor is pervasive in everyday life, not just in language but in thought and action. Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we…

— George Lakoff

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

— Noam Chomsky

Language is memory and metaphor.

— Storm Jameson