Niels Bohr Quotes

You've got to guard against speaking more clearly than you think.

If I get the idea, and I get some clarity on how I feel about that idea, then I can safely assume I'll find the right words. I do have that confidence.

It is very wholesome exercise, this trying to make one's words represent one's thoughts, instead of merely looking to their effect on others

Writing is the best way to get your mind clear. It's also a great way to explain your past or what you hope for the future.

Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.

If you can't say it clearly, you don't understand it yourself

Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.

Writing is thought crystalized on a piece of paper, which can then be reviewed.

I'm realising now that I can't just blurt things out.

I need to be able to explain myself in context.

The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

I regret things all the time. I've never regretted not saying something. I've only regretted saying something.

Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?

I'm not a confused person in real life. I'm very clear.

Clarity is the most important thing to me - in thinking - and so I try in the books to be as clear as possible.

There is nothing like writing to force you to think and get your thoughts straight.

If you want to "get in touch with your feelings," fine, talk to yourself. We all do. But if you want to communicate with another thinking human being, get in touch with your thoughts. Put them in order, give them a purpose, use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce. The secret way to do this is to write it down, and then cut out the confusing parts.

you don't know what you think unless you say it.

We don't know what we think until we see what we say.

How can I tell you what I think until I've heard what I'm going to say?

If you start trying to communicate ideas, I think you don't allow the audience to see themselves.

For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.