Ability Quote by Leslie Lamport

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

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Humphry Davy

Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.

— Mark Hopkins

Language is froth on the surface of thought.

— John McCarthy

The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.

— Joan Didion

Real thinking is possible only in the light of genuine language, no matter how limited, how primitive.

— Anonymous

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

— James Gleick

Language is the medium of our thoughts.

— Frederick Lenz

The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical…

— Albert Einstein

Language does our thinking for us.

— Kenneth Burke

“There is a reciprocal influence between thought and language. What we think molds the words we use, and the words we use react upon…

— Grenville Kleiser

Some people use language to express thought, some to conceal thought, and others instead of thoughts.

— Vikrant Parsai