Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

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

Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.

Language does our thinking for us.

We think in language. We think in words. Language is the landscape of thought.

A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.

Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes.

Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.

The constructions of language, which is to say the constructions of thought, are formed within experience, not the other way around.

We think in language. The quality of our thoughts and ideas can only be as good as the quality of our language.

Was it really so far-fetched to think that words had a way of shaping a person's whole life?

It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.

Ideas do not exist separately from language.

Every language having a structure, by the very nature of language, reflects in its own structure that of the world as assumed by those who evolved the language. In other words, we read unconsciously into the world the structure of the language we use.

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

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

So long as we use a certain language, all questions that we can ask will have to be formulated in it and will thereby confirm the theory of the universe which is implied in the vocabulary and structure of the language.

We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language.

Those who have reflected on the powerful influence of language on thought will perceive in how different a manner people who speak in different languages are apt to think.

I don't think there is such a thing as an idea without words, because your language is your thought.

If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better.

Language surely does affect our thoughts, rather than just labeling them for the sake of labeling them. Most obviously, language is the conduit through which people share their thoughts and intentions and thereby acquire the knowledge, customs, and values of those around them."

The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close. For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.

Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression.

Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead.

I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view.