Lev Vygotsky Quotes

Words are not thoughts, just like bricks are not homes. But houses are made with bricks. If you have less bricks, you will make a small house. The more words you have, the clearer your thoughts, and the more clearly you can convey them.

A thought embodied and embrained in fit words walks the earth a living being.

If writing has taught me anything, it's that you don't actually understand anything until you can express it in words.

It is extremely natural for us to desire to see such our thoughts put into the dress of words, without which indeed we can scarce have a clear and distinct idea of them our selves.

I can understand that there are those who can think and imagine the world without words, but I think that once you find the words that name your experience, then suddenly that experience becomes grounded, and you can use it and you can try to understand it.

Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.

It is amazing how much a thought expands and refines by being put into speech: I should think it could hardly know itself.

He knows that the most important words in all languages are the small words.

Whatever we have words for, that we have already got beyond.

How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean.

Thinking... is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear. Just as the eye perceives colours and the ear sounds, so thinking perceives ideas

He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe.

Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to the gross employments of rusticks or mechanics, so the most heroick sentiments will lose their efficacy

If we had no language we'd have nothing.

Words are the only arteries of thought our poor human body possesses.

Experience teaches us that thought does not express itself in words, but rather realizes itself in them

We feel in one world, we think and name in another. Between the two we can set up a system of references, but we cannot fill in the gap.

The mind has three operations: the formation of ideas, judgements and reasoning.

You're bound to get idears if you go thinkin' about stuff

I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.

It is impossible to disassociate language from science...To call forth a concept, a word is needed.

Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it.

Words are both better and worse than thoughts, they express them, and add to them; they give them power for good or evil; they start them on an endless flight, for instruction and comfort and blessing, or for injury and sorrow and ruin.

Words are the litmus paper of the mind.

The mind, in discovering truths, acts in the same manner as it acts through the eye in discovering objects; when once any object has been seen, it is impossible to put the mind back to the same condition it was in before it saw it.