Thinker Quotes - Page 17

• 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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• 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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• I was a romantic, messy thinker. I was raised with very conservative beliefs, but that was a long time ago.

  Julia Child

  Long, Belief, Conservative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Bill Clinton was a very, very good speaker. But like many people who are great speakers and great thinkers and have a lot of energy and ambition, he talked too much.

  Robert Reich

  Ambition, People, Too Much

  "American Experience", www.pbs.org.

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• 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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• When watching men of power in action it must be always kept in mind that, whether they know it or not, their main purpose is the elimination or neutralization of the independent individual- the independent voter, consumer, worker, owner, thinker- and that every device they employ aims at turning men into a manipulable animated instrument which is Aristotle's definition of a slave.

  Eric Hoffer

  Independent, Men, Mind

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful, he must obey his impulse.

  William James

  Useless, Lovers, Impulse

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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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• 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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• Some `advanced thinkers' are of the opinion that anyone who differs from the conventional opinion must be in the right. This is a delusion; if it were not, truth would be easier to come by than it is.

  Bertrand Russell

  Would Be, Opinion, Easier

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.62, Routledge

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• The judges of England have rarely been original thinkers or great jurists. Many have been craftsmen rather than creators.

  Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin

  Judging, England, Craftsman

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• It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.

  Max Planck

  Religious, Soul, Religion

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• The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs but goes right to work on the creative how.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Time, Attitude

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2013). “You Can If You Think You Can”, p.310, 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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• Make a list of your friends and determine who is the most positive thinker among them and deliberately cultivate his society.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational Life, Lists, Determine

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

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• This year has begun hopefully for right thinkers. After all these centuries of feudal barbarism and political slavery, it is surprising to see how the word of 'liberty' sets minds on fire.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Fire, Years, Political

  Napoleon Bonaparte (2010). “The Corsican: The Virtual Diary of Napoleon Bonaparte”, p.4, Fireship Press

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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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• Positive Thinkers get positive results because they appreciate the inestimable value of a day, this day, not the next day, but this day, and every day. Today offers at least sixteen waking hours that may be crammed FULL of opportunity, joy, excitement, and achievement.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Opportunity, Next Day, Appreciate

  Norman Vincent Peale (2015). “Why Some Positive Thinkers Get Powerful Results”, p.53, Open Road Media

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