Quote by Tom Rachman

“He was a man who formed opinions as he spoke them, or perhaps afterward, requiring him to ramble at length to grasp what he…

— Tom Rachman

“He was a man who regarded his opinions, however briefly adopted, as revealed truth: he never backed down, or listened, or compromised. He was…

— Ben Macintyre

“He was the type of man who had his own sense of logic and reached his own conclusions without regard to the opinions of…

— Haruki Murakami

“He read greedily but understood selectively, choosing the bits and pieces of other men's ideas that supported whatever predilection he had at the moment.”

— Toni Morrison

“He was hungry to learn about things. Unlike most of us, he was the sort of person who insisted on living out his beliefs.”

— Wayne Westerberg

“It was that his words, his telling, just did not synchronize with what his hearers believed would (and must) be the scope of a…

— William Faulkner

“A man ought to avow his opinions and defend them with boldness.”

— John Adams

“Speech was given to man to conceal his thoughts.”

— Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

“Words which he did not understand he said over and over to himself till he had learnt them by heart: and through them he…

— James Joyce

“And it was like the longer he talked, the more words he used, the less they came to mean anything. It was an endless…

— Alexandra Bracken

“He "had developed a trick in college for speaking with authority. He believed that breaking his argument into numbers forced people to pay attention.…

— Anonymous

“The more the words of others impressed him with their factual content, the more he felt he must wait for his own facts before…

— Louis Zukofsky