Thinker Quotes - Page 15

• 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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• Events and developments, such as ... the Copernican Revolution, ... occurred only because some thinkers either decided not to be bound by certain "obvious" methodological rules, or because they unwittingly broke them.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Science, Revolution, Events

  Paul Feyerabend (1993). “Against Method”, p.14, Verso

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• The doer and the thinker, no allowances for the other, as the failing light illuminates the mercenaries creed.

  Jethro Tull

  Light, Politics, Doers

  Song: Thick As A Brick Edit No. 1

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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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• Our economy is built upon convergent thinkers, people that execute things, get them done. But artists and designers are divergent thinkers: they expand the horizon of possibilities.

  John Maeda

  Artist, People, Horizon

  "John Maeda: Innovation is born when art meets science". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2010.

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• Secret thinker sometimes listening aloud.

  David Bowie

  Philosophy, Secret, Listening

  Song: Win, Album: Young Americans, 1975

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• It is important to remember that some of the most serious thinkers once thought that democracy was not compatible with the cultures of Germany, Italy, Japan, Latin America and Russia.

  Natan Sharansky

  Latin, Russia, Japan

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• Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.

  Criss Jami

  Honesty, Confusion, Painful

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.91, Criss Jami

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• The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of attention.

  Boris Sidis

  Men, Artist, Attention

  "The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology" by Boris Sidis, (p. 98), 1914.

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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 future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic 'right-brain' thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Creativity, Artist, Creative

  "A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future". Book by Daniel H. Pink, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2006.

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• I am inspired by thinkers. I am inspired by rebellion. I am inspired by children. I have been inspired by love. I have been inspired by heartbreak. I try to take everything that comes at me in life. There have been times in my life that I didn't handle things... right. But even though you stumble, you still kind of get through it.

  Nikki Sixx

  Children, Trying, Kind

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• You can't use up creativity, creative thinking builds on itself and increases the creativity of the thinker...You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

  Maya Angelou

  Creativity, Thinking, Creative

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• Well, I outline fanatically. I am a long thinker and a slow writer, though I am trying to get faster.

  William Landay

  Long, Trying, Faster

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• I have epiphanies all the time, because I'm always thinking. I'm a thinker. I'm always writing poetry, I'm always coming to conclusions.

  Chrisette Michele

  Writing, Thinking, Epiphany

  "Chrisette Michele shocked at No. 1 standing". Interview with Shanon Cook, www.cnn.com. May 20, 2009.

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• Not every President is a great speaker. Not every President is a great thinker. But in the modern era, every single President is a master of one thing: eye contact.

  Brad Meltzer

  Eye, President, Eras

  Brad Meltzer (2011). “The Inner Circle: The Culper Ring Trilogy 1”, p.109, Hachette UK

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• People who are unable to use their hands skillfully for all kinds of work, will not become good thinkers and will behave awkwardly in life. It is not the head alone, but the whole human being that is a logician. Activities demanding manual and bodily skill, such as knitting, leads to the enhancement of the faculty of judgment. This faculty is actually developed least of all by exercises in logic.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Exercise, Knitting, Hands

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• Michael Harris opens the doors and gently guides you into a magic world. Once inside, you can't help but feel mesmerized, eager to see how deep the rabbit hole goes. And no wonder: a major thinker of our time is talking to you about math and so much more, like you've never heard before.

  Edward Frenkel

  Math, Doors, Talking

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• First doubt, then inquire, then discover. This has been the process with all our great thinkers.

  Henry Thomas Buckle

  Discovery, Doubt, Firsts

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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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• 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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• From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.

  Adam Savage

  Forever, Stories, Done

  "The Truth About MythBusters". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. May 15, 2013.

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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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• Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought.

  Victor Hugo

  Writing, Play, Tyrants

  "Les misérables".

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• I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador

  Sigmund Freud

  Adventure, Men, Conquistadors

  Letter toWilhelm Fliess, 1 Feb. 1900

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