“Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.”
André Breton or the Quest of the Beginning
Alternating Current (1967)
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Mexican writer laureated with the 1990 Nobel Prize for Lite… 1914–1998Related quotes
L'homme du Midi ne ment pas, il se trompe. Il ne dit pas toujours la vérité, mais il croit la dire.
Source: Tartarin de Tarascon (1872), P. 40; translation p. 17.
“¿Do you think before speaking or do you speak after thinking?”
13 June, 2017
As President, 2017
Source: Telecinco https://www.telecinco.es/informativos/mocion-censura-mariano-rajoy-lapsus-pifias-trabalenguas-pp-partido-popular-presidente-gobierno-espana-podemos-pablo-iglesias_2_2386680191.html
Source: Chasm City (2001), Chapter 12 (p. 197).
“Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think is creation's.”
"The Raison d'Etre of Criticism in the Arts"
Two Cheers for Democracy (1951)
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.
“Writing is closer to thinking than to speaking.”
