Thinker Quotes

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  Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

  Aristotle

  Believe, Truth Is, Accepting

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• The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.

  Ernest Holmes

  Love, Life, Change

  Ernest Holmes (2012). “The Science of Mind Collection”, p.225, Penguin

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• Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

  Helen Keller

  Positive, Hope, Encouragement

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• It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Attributed to Aristotle in "Religion and the Pursuit of Truth" by Lowell Lindsay Bennion, p. 52, 1959.

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• The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.

  Walter Lippmann

  Time, Men, Thinking

  Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface To Morals”, p.43, Transaction Publishers

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• I believe that our very survival depends upon us becoming better systems thinkers.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Believe, Becoming Better, Survival

  "It's An Interconnected World". Shambhala Sun, April 2002.

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• A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Negative, Doe, Refuse

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Amazing Results of Positive Thinking”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.

  Sophocles

  Wise

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• He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.

  Anton Chekhov

  Writing, Foolish, Not Afraid

  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1964). “Letters on the short story, the drama, and other literary topics”

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• For the thinker the world is a thought; for the wit, an image; for the enthusiast, a dream; for the inquirer, truth.

  Ludwig Buchner

  Dream, World, Wit

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• Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

  W. H. Murray

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Strength, Confidence

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• The best revenge is the massive success.

  Frank Sinatra

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Ideas, Immortal

  Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface To Morals”, p.43, Transaction Publishers

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• The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not “the thinker.” The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated. You then begin to realize that there is a vast realm of intelligence beyond thought, that thought is only a tiny aspect of that intelligence. You also realize that all the things that truly matter – beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace – arise from beyond the mind. You begin to awaken.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Creativity, Joy

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.17, New World Library

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• No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.

  John Stuart Mill

  May, Firsts, Doe

  John Stuart Mill (2012). “On Liberty”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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• All great artists and thinkers are great workers.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Artist, Great Work, Great Art

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• Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Memories, Men, Originality

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• The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

  Pablo Neruda

  Inspirational, Beauty, Book

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• The realm of consciousness is much vaster than thought can grasp. When you no longer believe everything you think, you step out of thought and see clearly that the thinker is not who you are.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Believe, Thinking, Steps

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.18, New World Library

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• Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery... a topic that often leaves even the most sophisticated thinkers tongue-tied and confused. And, as with all of the earlier mysteries, there are many who insist - and hope - that there will never be a demystification of consciousness.

  Daniel Dennett

  Confused, Lasts, Tongue

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• The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Life, Passion, Soul

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• One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Passion, Thinking, Feelings

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• No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.

  Napoleon Hill

  Umpires, Judging, Enemy

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.212, Penguin

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