Empty Quote by Richard Mitchell

In those days he really didn't know what he was talking about; that is to say, he was a young jailkid all hung-up on…

— Jack Kerouac

“His prose, like the thinking it reveals, is full of cloudy suggestions of something beyond the range of mere cognition. He has been given…

— Richard Mitchell

A man’s mind is hidden in his writings: criticism brings it to light.

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

He that uses his words loosely and unsteadily will either not be minded or not understood.

— John Locke

There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It…

— Francis Darwin

He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink.

— John Ray

It is perhaps the most characteristic feature of the intellectual that he judges new ideas not by their specific merits but by the readiness…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

He might be a very clever man by nature for aught I know, but he laid so many books upon his head that his…

— Robert Hall

He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crisis with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from…

— William Faulkner

“As long as he followed the fixed definition of obscure words such as spirit, will, freedom, essence, purposely letting himself go into the snare…

— Leo Tolstoy

Now he began to see for the first time the unbelievable magnitude of what man, when he gained power to understand and rule the…

— Robert M. Pirsig