595 – “A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”

–Roald Dahl

560 – “There are devilish thoughts even in the most angelic minds.”

–Rachel Wolchin [Attributed]

557 -“It isn’t what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”

–Andrew Davies [Often misattributed to Jane Austen, see Source Notes]

541 – “The thought system that dominates our culture is laced with selfish values, and relinquishing those values is a lot easier said than done. The journey to a pure heart can be highly disorienting. For years we may have worked for power, money and prestige. Now all of a sudden we’ve learned that those are just the values of a dying world.”

–Marianne Williamson

540 – “Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.”

–Mason Cooley [Attributed]

523 – “I don’t get how people walk through life with all their windows wide open.”

–Leah Burke in Becky Albertalli’s Leah on the Offbeat

492 – “I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.”

–Stendhal

490 – “.تحقق مما يقال ، وليس الشخص الذي يتحدث”

“Tahaqaq mimaa yuqal , walays alshakhs aldhy yatahdath.”

“Examine what is said, not him who speaks.”

–Arabic Proverb

480 – “I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.” | “How do I know what I think until I see what I say.”

–Flannery O’Connor | –E M Forster [both attributed]

470 – „Der Zweck der Philosophie ist die logische Klärung der Gedanken. Die Philosophie ist keine Lehre, sondern eine Tätigkeit. Ein philosophisches Werk besteht wesentlich aus Erläuterungen. Das Resultat der Philosophie sind nicht „philosophische Sätze“, sondern das Klarwerden von Sätzen. Die Philosophie soll die Gedanken, die sonst, gleichsam, trübe und verschwommen sind, klar machen und scharf abgrenzen.“

“Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations. Philosophy does not result in ‘philosophical propositions,’ but rather in the clarification of propositions. Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries.”

–Ludwig Wittgenstein [See source notes for an alternative translation]