Ability Quote by Johann Georg Hamann

Language is the source of misunderstandings.

— Anonymous

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.

— Claude Levi-Strauss

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

— George Orwell

The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate our inner…

— D.T. Suzuki

Language is froth on the surface of thought.

— John McCarthy

Language is the medium of our thoughts.

— Frederick Lenz

Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.

— Mark Hopkins

Language does our thinking for us.

— Kenneth Burke

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

— Bertrand Russell

It requires a strong mind to bear up against several languages. Some persons have learnt so many, that they have ceased to think in…

— Arthur Helps

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

— Humphry Davy

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

— James Gleick