Sarah Churchwell Quotes

Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.

Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.

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

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

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.

Writing is thought crystalized on a piece of paper, which can then be reviewed.

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.

We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative.

Man can no more think without words than see without light.

Without language, thought is a vague, uncharted nebula.

There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.

Words are not brains, you know.

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

Speech is the index of the mind.

These glorious things-words-are man's right alone...Without words we should know no more of each other's hearts and thoughts than the dog knows of his fellow dog....for, if you will consider, you always think to yourself in words, though you do not speak them aloud; and without them all our thoughts would be mere blind longings, feelings which we could not understand ourselves.

Whoever is versed in the jargon does not have to say what he thinks, does not even have to think it properly. The jargon takes over this task.

you don't know what you think unless you say it.

He who writes badly thinks badly

A man without words is a man without thought.

Words are the litmus paper of the mind.

thinking beings have an urge to speak, speaking beings have an urge to think.

The word is not just a sound or a written symbol. The word is a force; it is the power you have to express and communicate, to think, and thereby to create the events in your life. The word is the most powerful tool you have as a human; it is a tool of magic.

I think sometimes a narrative can come out of a single word.