“Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.”
Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer
“Writing is closer to thinking than to speaking.”
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Octavio Paz (1914–1998) Mexican writer laureated with the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature
André Breton or the Quest of the Beginning
Alternating Current (1967)
“You cannot think clearly if you cannot speak and write clearly”
John Rogers Searle (1932) American philosopher
The Storm Over the University (December 6, 1990)
Context: Finally, and perhaps most importantly, you need to acquire the skills of writing and speaking that make for candor, rigor, and clarity. You cannot think clearly if you cannot speak and write clearly.
“High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.”
Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) American writer
Introduction to Our Time Is Now: Notes From the High School Underground, John Birmingham, ed. (1970)
Various interviews
“I just think the closer we (as a species) think we get to God, the closer we get to death.”
Patrice O'Neal (1969–2011) American stand-up comedian, radio personality, and actor
September 23, 2011
The Opie and Anthony Radio Show
“We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.”
Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) Polish-American Conservative Judaism Rabbi
As quoted in SQ : Connecting with Our Spiritual Intelligence (2000) by Danah Zohar and Ian Marshall, p. 15
Franz Kafka (1883–1924) author
Variant: What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness.