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“The stupider one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence wriggles and hides itself. Intelligence is a knave, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
The Brothers Karamazov
“No matter how explicit the pledge, people will turn and twist the text to suit their own purposes.”
Mahatma Gandhi
,
The Story of my Experiments with Truth
“It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.”
Isaac Asimov
,
Foundation
“I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.”
J. D. Salinger
,
The Catcher in the Rye
“Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
,
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“Hatred is clear, metallic, one-handed, unwavering; unlike love.”
Margaret Atwood
,
Cat's Eye
“Philosophy should make clear and delimit sharply the thoughts which otherwise are, as it were, opaque and blurred.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
,
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“You are bound to go up and down, just as I did in my youth, but do keep your clarity of mind, and if fools or sages dare to criticise don't blame yourself too much.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
,
This Side of Paradise
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