Add Quote by William Hazlitt

Language is the close-fitting dress of thought.

— Richard Chenevix Trench

Language is froth on the surface of thought.

— John McCarthy

The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.

— Anish Kapoor

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

— Benjamin Lee Whorf

Language is the dress of thought.

— Samuel Johnson

Language is the medium of our thoughts.

— Frederick Lenz

Language does our thinking for us.

— Kenneth Burke

Language helps form the limits of our reality.

— Dale Spender

We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.

— Anonymous

Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.

— Louise Bogan

We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.

— Tom Stoppard

Language forces us to perceive the world as man presents it to us.

— Julia Penelope