John Henry Newman Quotes

Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.

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

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

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

The thought process can never be complete without articulation.

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

The words of the world want to make sentences.

We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it.

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

Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.

Suppose we think while we talk or write--I mean, as we normally do--we shall not in general say that we think quicker than we talk, but the thought seems not to be separate from the expression.

Thought flies and words go on foot.

A man without words is a man without thought.

I think that I speak a lot like I write.

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

Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.

Thinking is movement confined to the brain

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

Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.

Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought.

By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration.

All the fun is in how you say a thing.

Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.

Speech ... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.

What you say is who you are. How you say it is your style.