A Quote by Mortimer Adler

The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.

Mortimer Adler

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Mortimer Adler
American - Philosopher
December 28, 1902 - June 28, 2001

Everybody who rides a motorbike thinks they can ride MotoGP. Anybody who does a Gran Fondo thinks they can do pro cycling. Anyone who drives a Corsa thinks they can do Formula 1.

Mark Cavendish

We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

The man who thinks he knows does not yet know what knowing is

Michel de Montaigne

Perhaps the greatest danger of our global community is that the person in LA thinks he knows Cambodia because he's seen The Killing Fields on-screen, and the newcomer from Cambodia thinks he knows LA because he's seen City of Angels on video.

Pico Iyer

Every thing thinks, but according to its complexity. If this is so, then stones also think...and this stone thinks only I stone, I stone, I stone. But perhaps it cannot even say I. It thinks: Stone, stone, stone... God enjoys being All, as this stone enjoys being almost nothing, but since it knows no other way of being, it is pleased with its own way, eternally satisfied with itself.

Umberto Eco

The man who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know.

Paul the Apostle

Chandler's the guy everybody thinks will do well with women, but he thinks too much and says the wrong thing.

Matthew Perry

An educator never says what he himself thinks, but only that which he thinks it is good for those whom he is educating to hear.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he knows.

James Bryce

Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know the things he thinks he knows.

James Bryce

I don't really know what the average person thinks about animation. I think the average person thinks that it's made by cartoonists - and it used to be. When people think of The Simpsons, they think of Matt Groening. They don't think of whoever the 200 writers are.

John Kricfalusi

What is essential in the life of a man of my kind is what he thinks and how he thinks, and not what he does or suffers.

Albert Einstein

If a man thinks you're beautiful or thinks you're strong or thinks you're smart, take the power and use it, but don't need it.

Kelli O'Hara

A person who thinks too much only ever thinks about his thoughts

Alan Watts

I think Donald Trump thinks of Putin as being a strong person, and I think he thinks of himself as being a very strong person. But I don't think in any way that he thinks of the Putin government as a desirable model.