Kami Garcia Quotes

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

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."

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Ideas do not exist separately from language.

Language does our thinking for us.

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

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

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.

Becoming pretty doesn't just change the way you look," she said. "No," David said. "It changes the way you think.

The only living language is the language in which we think and have our being.

A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language.

We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually.

The very act of thinking about power in our lives and experiences creates a process of revelation and self-analysis that may even make us look at ourselves in a new light... thinking about power and its complex manifestations may not simply lead to a better understanding of the abstract complexities of society, but may have an effect on one?s own image and identity. Perhaps a warning label should be placed on the cover.

The pressure disappeared with the first word he put on paper. He thought--while his hand moved rapidly--what a power there was in words; later, for those who heard them, but first for the one who found them; a healing power, a solution, like the breaking of a barrier. He thought, perhaps the basic secret the scientists have not discovered, the first fount of life, is that which happens when a thought takes shape in words.

Everyone thinks their own situation most tragic. I am no exception.

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.

Some people think that words can injure the psyche or the moral fiber. And they really can't.