Create Quote by John Langdon

Words are illusions.

— Bodhidharma

Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.

— Benjamin Lee Whorf

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

— Noam Chomsky

It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an…

— Edward Sapir

Language is froth on the surface of thought.

— John McCarthy

Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.

— Samuel Johnson

Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built…

— Dan Simmons

It is an illusion to think that the matter can be resolved through words.

— Che Guevara

Space and force pervade language. Many cognitive scientists (including me) have concluded from their research on language that a handful of concepts about places,…

— Steven Pinker

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 are mere shadows cast by ideas. But the ideas they represent are real.

— Roy H. Williams

It is impossible to dissociate language from science or science from language, because every natural science always involves three things: the sequence of phenomena…

— Anonymous