"The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks."
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The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.
Why is marking a book indispensable to reading it?Β
First, it keeps you awake, not merely conscious, but wide awake.Β
Second, reading, if it is active, is thinking, and thinking tends to express itself in words, spoken or written. The person who says he knows what he thinks bu...
Commenting on what it means to have knowledge, in How to Read a Book, Mortimer Adler writes: βThe person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.β
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