„A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.“

— Ambrose Bierce

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„I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, I speak like a child.“
— Vladimir Nabokov
„I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down.“
— Stephen King
„If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.“
— George Orwell
„People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think.“
— George Carlin
„The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, — all in one.“
— John Ruskin
„The family uses people, not for what they are, nor for what they are intended to be, but for what it wants them for — its own uses. It thinks of them not as what God has made them, but as the something which it has arranged that they shall be.“
— Florence Nightingale