Francis Bacon Quotes

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

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.

Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

In recognizing that words have power to define and to compel, the semanticists are actually testifying to the philosophic quality of language which is the source of their vexation. In an attempt to get rid of that quality, they are looking for some neutral means which will be a nonconductor of the current called "emotion" and its concomitant of evaluation.

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

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.

Words are also actions.

I love the English language. Words have power.

Language is very deceiving. In certain languages, there is certain vocabulary that doesn't exist in other languages. It totally changes how people feel about things.

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

It is probably impossible to think without words, but if we permit ourselves to think with the wrong words, we shall soon be entertaining erroneous thoughts; for words, which are given us for the expression of thought, have a habit of going beyond their proper bounds and determining the content of thought.

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

Words have incredible power. They can make people's hearts soar, or they can make people's hearts sore.

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."

Your words are containers for power, and by the words you speak you frame your world!

Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

I am under the spell of language, which has ruled me since I was 10.

The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it-right or wrong-may be given.

The old idea that words possess magical powers is false; but its falsity is the distortion of a very important truth. Words do have a magical effect - but not in the way that magicians supposed, and not on the objects they were trying to influence. Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.

We don't realize how much we create reality through language. If we say that life is hard, it will be hard.

Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings.

Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of words means that we lack the objectivity necessary to see the terrible distortion of reality which language brings.