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by dnc 20 days ago
> You can't think well without writing well, and you can't write well without reading well.

I'd like this to be true, but Socrates immediately comes to mind as a perfect counter example of someone who was opposed to writing and was arguably one of the greatest thinkers ever.

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Technically we don’t know what Socrates actually said, we just know what Plato has him saying. Very plausible that Socrates was rambling in person, and Plato cleaned up his thoughts in the process of writing them.