Common Quote by Anonymous

I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I reflect, and out of all of this I try to form an idea into which…

— Marquis de Lafayette

When I meet with any persons who write obscurely or converse confusedly, I am apt to suspect two things; first, that such persons do…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“People have motives, what they are, is what you need to notice.”

— S.D. Walker

Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them.

— Thomas Hobbes

“The use of reason is to justify the obscure desires that move our conduct, impulses, passions, prejudices and follies, and also our fears.”

— Joseph Conrad

[You write out of the] desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, etc., etc., etc. It is humbug…

— George Orwell

“We may feel good about our words our intentions and our motivation may be pure but our message probably will be lost or misunderstood…

— Robert E. Fisher

“A second way in which our motives influence the kind of evidence we entertain involves whose opinions, expert or otherwise, we consult. We can…

— Thomas Gilovich

“When somebody tells us something that would be disturbing or inconvenient for us to believe, we reflexively scrutinize that person for some excuse to…

— Tim Kreider

In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were a mist,…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“We should use discernment to connect dots, avoid traps, and make wise judgments without becoming too judgmental, suspicious, and faultfinders.”

— Assegid Habtewold

One should therefore not rely on mere words, but everywhere search for the intention behind them. (121)

— Edward Conze