thought expression Quotes

As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.

Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to the gross employments of rusticks or mechanics, so the most heroick sentiments will lose their efficacy

Language is the dress of thought.

Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly. Ludwig Wittgenstein

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

I don't believe that you can possibly separate expression from thought in an imaginative work. The better a thing is expressed, the more completely it is thought.

Grammar is...the pole you grab to get your thoughts up on their feet and walking.

The actual life of a thought lasts only until it reaches the point of speech...As soon as our thinking has found words it ceases to be sincere...When it begins to exist in others it ceases to live in us, just as the child severs itself from its mother when it enters into its own existence.

The development of language is part of the development of the personality, for words are the natural means of expressing thoughts and establishing understanding between people.

... if you repeat a thought, or say a word, over and over again-not once, not twice, but dozens, hundreds, thousands of times-do you have any idea of the creative power of that? A thought or a word expressed and expressed and expressed becomes just that-expressed. That is, pushed out. It becomes outwardly realized. It becomes your physical reality.

Anybody can tell you what they think. But if you can illustrate what you think, you have a better chance of persuading people.

Words should be only the clothes, carefully custom-made to fit the thought.

Writing is something that's great because you get to write every thought that's on your mind; you take your time.

For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down in words, with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived it.

If we had no language we'd have nothing.

Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought.

I'm a fan of writing, and writing letters, because I hate when I'm trying to get a thought out, and I can't.

Painting, especially much better than words, allows oneself to express the various stages of thought, including the deeper levels, the underground stages of the mental process.

For me it's very important to express my thoughts, the pictures I carry inside of me, maybe because it's important to get them out.

Initially, I started writing music because I wanted to express my thoughts and get what was going on in my head out to the world.

No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged. It is the skin of a living thought and may vary in color and context according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast - talk them or write them down.

I feel that the act of writing, in and of itself, is a tool towards probing that which you wouldn't without that pen in your hand. It's a strange, almost neurological phenomenon, and the words seem to generate more words - but only when you're writing. You can't do it in your head.

My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.