John Dewey Quotes

Thought is made in the mouth.

One of the things that writing and speech can do is express what we're thinking one thought at a time.

You think, you don't just speak. The lines come off the thoughts.

Its easy to know what you want to say, but not to say it

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

Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.

The thought process can never be complete without articulation.

Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing.

I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put into words.

In order to remain silent Da-sein must have something to say.

Put one word after another. Find the right word, put it down.

Damn words; they're just the pots and pans of life, the pails and scrubbing-brushes. I wish I didn't have to think in words.

Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.

We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.

Language transcends us and yet we speak.

The best clue to what a person thinks is what he says.

It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.

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

Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.

Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.

Words are the voice of the heart.

I act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.

A language is everything you do.

Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them!

Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order.