Crude Quote by Sarah Churchwell

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

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Lev S. Vygotsky

I don't believe that you can possibly separate expression from thought in an imaginative work. The better a thing is expressed, the more completely…

— Virginia Woolf

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

— Vikrant Parsai

Profound thought is conveyed in language of very great simplicity and purity.

— Charlotte Mason

Language is froth on the surface of thought.

— John McCarthy

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

— Hermann Hesse

Thought is metaphoric, and proceeds by comparison, and the metaphors of language derive therefrom.

— I. A. Richards

The Intentionality of the mind not only creates the possibility of meaning, but limits its forms.

— John Searle

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

— Anonymous

With its claims to profundity, boldness and originality, thinking still limits itself provisionally to the exclusively rational and scientific. ... As soon as it…

— Robert Musil

Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas.

— Anonymous