Imagine Quote by Mehmet Murat Ildan

What people say often precedes what they think. Some people sometimes say, "I have to hear myself talk before I know what I think."…

— John Elkington

The most fundamental feature of language is that it allows us to exchange thought. In conversations we connect the private world of our minds…

— Kumar Anupam

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

I'm always interested in how people use language to not say what they mean.

— Greta Gerwig

Language is the medium of our thoughts.

— Frederick Lenz

At all crucial moments in our lives we want to speak without knowing what to say.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Most of us grew up speaking a language that encourages us to label, compare, demand, and pronounce judgments rather than to be aware of…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

One often speaks without seeing, without knowing, without meaning what one says.

— Jacques Derrida

“Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.

— Karl Kraus

Language is the primary way we communicate with each other, and we have really strong feelings about what words mean, and about good language…

— Kory Stamper

We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.

— Oliver Sacks