Coherent Thought Quotes

If you say three things in a row that make sense, people will vote for you.

The practice of narrative and argument does not lead to invention, but it compels a certain coherence of thought.

I try to teach my students style, but always as a part of life, not as ornament. Style has to come out of communicating coherent thought, not in sticking little flowers on speeches. Style and substance and a sense of life are the things literature is composed of. One must use one's own personality in relationship to life and language, of course, and everyone has such a relationship. Some people find it, some don't find it, but it's there.

The reason I haven't been writing in this book for so long is partly that I haven't had one decent coherent thought to put down.

There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere.

Nobody is made anything by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory; practice must settle the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule; and you may as well hope to make a good painter, or musician, extempore, by a lecture and instruction in the arts of music and painting, as a coherent thinker, or a strict reasoner, by a set of rules, showing him wherein right reasoning consists.

Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.

I would very much like to be one of those writers who have something really clear in their head to say, and throughout their life they promote this idea in their works.

It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.

Hazel Grace,” he said. “Hi,” I said. “How are you?” “Grand,” he said. “I have been wanting to call you on a nearly minutely basis, but I have been waiting until I could form a coherent thought in re An Imperial Affliction.” (He said “in re.” He really did. That boy.)