Giving Quote by Stanley Fish

“Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead. The shaping power…

— Stanley Fish

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

— Benjamin Lee Whorf

Language is froth on the surface of thought.

— John McCarthy

The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself.

— Noam Chomsky

Language is like drinking from one's own reflection in still water. We only take from it what we are at the time.

— Simon Van Booy

It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an…

— Edward Sapir

Languages shape the way we think, or don't.

— Erik Naggum

Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.

— Mark Hopkins

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

— Alice Walker

It's true that language is in a sense linear but that is as obvious as perceptual space is three-dimensional.

— Noam Chomsky

“Language ist not just a neutral vessel for conveying thoughts but is an invisible mold that actually shapes the way people think and perceive.”

— Anonymous

Language is memory and metaphor.

— Storm Jameson