Bear Quote by Maryanne Wolf

Language is the medium of our thoughts.

— Frederick Lenz

We humans invented literacy, which means it doesn't come for free with our genes like speech and vision. Every brain has to learn it…

— Maryanne Wolf

Reading or written language is a cultural invention that necessitated totally new connections among structures in the human brain underlying language, perception, cognition, and,…

— Maryanne Wolf

We human beings were never born to read; we invented reading and then had to teach it to every new generation. Each new reader…

— Maryanne Wolf

Language is handy, but we humans have social and emotional connections that transcend words and are communicated - and understood - without conscious thought.

— Leonard Mlodinow

We think in language. The quality of our thoughts and ideas can only be as good as the quality of our language.

— George Carlin

Language does our thinking for us.

— Kenneth Burke

Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about…

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Benjamin Lee Whorf

Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution.

— Jean Berko Gleason

We think in language. We think in words. Language is the landscape of thought.

— George Carlin

We speculated what it was like before we got language skills. When we humans had our first thought, most likely we didnt know what…

— Jane Wagner