Doe Quote by Kenneth Burke Download Open image “Language does our thinking for us.” — Kenneth Burke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Doe Language Thinking
We think in language. We think in words. Language is the landscape of thought. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
We think in language. The quality of our thoughts and ideas can only be as good as the quality of our language. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about. — Benjamin Lee Whorf Copy Share Image
Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking. — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are. — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
Language surely does affect our thoughts, rather than just labeling them for the sake of labeling them. Most obviously, language is the conduit through… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The most characteristic concern of rhetoric [is] the manipulation of men's beliefs for political ends....the basic function of rhetoric [is] the use of words… — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
“With my book in one hand And my drink in the other What more could I want But fame, Better health, And ten million… — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives. — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial… — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
Man is/the symbol-using (symbol making, symbol-misusing) animal/inventor of the negative (or moralized by the negative)/separated from his natural condition by instruments of his own… — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
The use of words by human agents to form attitudes or induce actionsin other human agents. — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your ways with… — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
Rhetoric is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic and continually born anew: the use of language… — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations. — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
Nothing old is ever reborn but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been born, will always reappear in a new… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
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