Thinker Quotes - Page 13

• We may divide thinkers into those who think for themselves and those who think through others. The latter are the rule and the former the exception. The first are original thinkers in a double sense, and egotists in the noblest meaning of the word.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Thinking, May, Firsts

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• The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker can feel himself lonely, most positively furthered, and most richly fed

  William James

  Lonely, Admiration, Feds

  William James (2012). “Memories and Studies”, p.178, The Floating Press

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• No, I try not to be a negative thinker.

  Earl Butz

  Trying, Negative

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• Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Parent, Events, World

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.106, Lulu.com

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• Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Writing, Thinking, Communicate

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.93, Cambridge University Press

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• The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.

  Helen Keller

  Age, Tribes, Maldives

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.134, Matthew Gordon

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• That was what stuck in the craws of all the good women of Deptford: Mrs Dempster had not been raped, as a decent woman would have been-no, she had yielded because a man wanted her. The subject was not one that could be freely discussed even among intimates, but it was understood without saying that if women began to yield for such reasons as that, marriage and society would not last long. Any man who spoke up for Mrs Dempster probably believed in Free Love. Certainly he associated sex with pleasure, and that put him in a class with filthy thinkers like Cece Athelstan.

  Robertson Davies

  Love, Sex, Men

  Robertson Davies (1996). “Fifth business”, Penguin, 1996

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• The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Scholar, Courtiers

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.26

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• For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Writing, Ukulele, Controversy

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• The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties - he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Average, Trying

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (1993). “Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration for Each Day of the Year”, Touchstone

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• I am not an original thinker-but I am an original listener.)

  Aravind Adiga

  Originals, Listeners

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger: A Novel”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• The positive thinker, on the contrary, constantly sends out positive thoughts, together with vital mental images of hope, optimism and creativity. He therefore activates the world around him positively and strongly tends to draw back to himself positive results. This, too, is a basic law of mind action.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Positive, Creativity, Law

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Positive Principle Today”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is the superior of any savage race of men; and in one or two high mental qualities she is above the reach of any man, savage or civilized!

  Mark Twain

  Art, Men, Race

  Mark Twain (2015). “Mark Twain's Essays: Top Essays”, p.57, 谷月社

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• Everyone pretends to be 'free thinkers', but few individuals pass the line into expressive territories that may be detrimental to their own social well-being.

  Criss Jami

  Lines, May, Territory

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.126, Criss Jami

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• Through books you can start today where the great thinkers of yesterday left off, because books have immortalized man's knowledge. Thinkers, dead a thousand years, are as alive in their books today as when they walked the earth.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Motivational, Book, Men

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• The art of thinking is the greatest art of all, for 'as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.' The thinker knows he is today where his thoughts have taken him and that he is building his future by the quality of the thoughts he thinks.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Motivational, Art, Taken

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• Throughout human history, our greatest leaders and thinkers have used the power of words to transform our emotions, to enlist us in their causes, and to shape the course of destiny. Words can not only create emotions, they create actions. And from our actions flow the results of our lives.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Destiny, Leader

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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• [Emerson] was interested not in the bookworm, not even in the thinker, only in Man Thinking.

  Robert D. Richardson

  Men, Thinking, Bookworms

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• Better readers are better thinkers.

  James Patterson

  Reader

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• I'm not my thoughts, I'm the thinker who has those thoughts.

  Deepak Chopra

  Mind, My Thoughts

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• What we take ourselves to be doing when we think about what is the case or how we should act is something that cannot be reconciled with a reductive naturalism, for reasons distinct from those that entail the irreducibility of consciousness. It is not merely the subjectivity of thought but its capacity to transcend subjectivity and to discover what is objectively the case that presents a problem....Thought and reasoning are correct or incorrect in virtue of something independent of the thinker's beliefs, and even independent of the community of thinkers to which he belongs. (p. 71)

  Thomas Nagel

  Independent, Thinking, Community

  Thomas Nagel (2012). “Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False”, p.72, Oxford University Press

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• My son, who's on the spectrum is a very rigid thinker. He needs clear-cut definitions of right and wrong. Anything hazy or gray confuses him. For instance, if I try to get him to see that a friend behaved badly, he'll often get upset with me because a friend is a 'good guy' by definition, in his book.

  Bill Vaughan

  Book, Son, Cutting

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• All power is indeed weak compared with that of the thinker. He sits upon the throne of his Empire of Thought, mightier far than they who wield material sceptres.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Thinking, Thrones, Empires

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• The mathematician who is without value to mathematicians, the thinker who is obscure or meaningless to thinkers, the dramatist who fails to move the pit, may be wise, may be eminent, but as an author he has failed.

  George Henry Lewes

  Wise, Moving, May

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• Since strict obedience is demanded and harshly enforced, only the least talented, least articulate, least nuanced thinkers, least likely to take a stand against abuse, and the least courageous people thrive in the Church today.

  Kate Kelly

  Church Today, People, Abuse

  "Gay Mormons are not the problem. Small-minded religious paradigms are" by Kate Kelly, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2015.

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