# Quote — Peter Farb, Word Play

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

- Author: [Peter Farb](https://www.leafyquotes.com/peter-farb.md)
- Book: [Word Play](https://www.leafyquotes.com/peter-farb/word-play.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Peter_Farb#Word_Play_(1974)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/peter-farb/word-play/experiments-have-shown

## More from this book

> Each language encourages its speakers to tell certain things and to ignore other things.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/peter-farb/word-play/each-language-encourages.md)

> 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."

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/peter-farb/word-play/wilhelm-von-humboldt.md)

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

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/peter-farb/word-play/thinking-is-language.md)