Activity Quote by John Dewey

The Intentionality of the mind not only creates the possibility of meaning, but limits its forms.

— John Searle

Words can enhance experience, but they can also take so much away. We see an insect and at once we abstract certain characteristics and…

— Jane Goodall

“Words are anchors for sense experience, but the experience is not the reality, and the word is not the experience. Language is thus two…

— John Seymour

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

— Katherine Mansfield

The words are meaningless except in terms of feeling. Does anyone act as the result of thought or does feeling stimulate action and sometimes…

— John Steinbeck

Purely on their own, words are inert splashes of ink, sound waves, blips on a screen and the like. Our minds perceive these and…

— Michael Rosen

Words do not express thoughts nor do they express that which is real. Instead they distract. Believe in acts rather than words.

— Senora Roy

The propriety of thoughts and words, which are the hidden beauties of a play, are but confusedly judged in the vehemence of action.

— John Dryden

Experience teaches us that thought does not express itself in words, but rather realizes itself in them

— Lev S. Vygotsky

“MEANING-MAKING The Human Adventure “Nothing means anything on its own. Meaning comes not from seeing or even observation alone, for there is no ‘alone’…

— L. Michael Hall

There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind.

— Francis Bacon

“And sometimes words become objects of interest in themselves. Suddenly we notice them. We see and hear them the way poets do, as having…

— Marilyn Chandler McEntyre