Form Quote by John Searle

The mind tends to run along the groove of one's intention and overlook the actual expression.

— Jacques Barzun

The motion of the mind is conveyed along a cloud of meaning.~ There is this paradox that we get to meaning only when we…

— David Berlinski

The human mind delights in finding pattern—so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other habit of…

— Stephen Jay Gould

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

— Lev S. Vygotsky

When words do not enter as factors into a shared situation, either overtly or imaginatively, they operate as pure physical stimuli, not as having…

— John Dewey

Thought is not merely expressed in words, it comes into existence through them

— Lev S. Vygotsky

The mind gives meaning to anything but the meaning it gives is meaningless.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process…

— Northrop Frye

Manufactured meaning has already been implanted in the unconscious through language and subliminal messages. This is why it is not wise to trust or…

— Terry Cole-Whittaker

The grand thing about the human mind is that it can turn its own tables and see meaninglessness as ultimate meaning.

— John Cage

Few things concentrate the mind more efficiently than the necessity of saying what you mean. It brings you face to face with what you…

— Edwin Newman

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

— C. S. Lewis