Each language encourages its speakers to tell certain things and to ignore other things. — Peter Farb

Experiments... have shown that at least one aspect of human thought—memory—is strongly influenced by language.

Wilhelm von Humboldt... stated that the structure of language expresses the inner life of its speakers: "Man lives with the world about him, principally, indeed exclusively, as language presents it."

Thinking is language spoken to oneself. Until language has made sense of an experience, that experience is meaningless.