Thinker Quotes - Page 8

• Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Writing, Philosopher, Professors

  "Ecartelement (Drawn and Quartered)". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1983.

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• I'm an independent thinker. And I'm not the poster child for any movement. I'm trying to support whatever's right no matter where it is.

  Mos Def

  Children, Independent, Support

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• I'm a visual thinker, not a language-based thinker. My brain is like Google Images.

  Temple Grandin

  Autism, Google, Brain

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• I'm a visual thinker, really bad at algebra. There's others that are a pattern thinker. These are the music and math minds. They think in patterns instead of pictures. Then there's another type that's not a visual thinker at all, and they're the ones that memorize all of the sports statistics, all of the weather statistics.

  Temple Grandin

  Sports, Math, Thinking

  "A Conversation with Temple Grandin". "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

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• I don't consider myself to be that radical a thinker.

  Steven Pinker

  Radical

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• The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.

  Carroll Quigley

  Party, Ideas, Two

  Carroll Quigley (1966). “Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time”, New York : Macmillan [c1966]

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• The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Atheist, Real, Order

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• The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand. The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.

  Paul Ryan

  Mistake, Fighting, Would Be

  "Paul Ryan and Ayn Rand's ideas: in the hot seat again". atlassociety.org. April 30, 2012.

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• I spent 22 years in the United States military, so I'm a pretty strategic level thinker.

  Allen West

  Military, Years, United States

  "Rep. West fired up over government overregulation". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. July 4, 2012.

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• The sexiest people are thinkers. Nobody's interested in somebody who's just vain with a hole in their head, talking about the latest thing - there is no latest thing. It's all rubbish.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Talking, People, Rubbish

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• Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.

  Venus Williams

  Winning, Play, Skills

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. March, 2003.

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• By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

  E. O. Wilson

  Achievement, Enlightenment, Justified

  E. O. Wilson (2014). “Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge”, p.72, Vintage

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• When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.

  Naomi Wolf

  Baby, War, Feminist

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• The Internet has become an integral part of everyday life precisely because it has been an open-to-all land of opportunity where entrepreneurs, thinkers and innovators are free to try, fail and then try again.

  Ron Wyden

  Opportunity, Land, Entrepreneur

  "My Letter to the Internet" by Ron Wyden, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2012.

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• The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.

  Bertrand Russell

  Challenges, Way, Problem

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• Thinkers aren't limited by what they know, because they can always increase what they know. Rather they're limited by what puzzles them, because there's no way to become curious about something that doesn't puzzle you.

  Daniel Quinn

  Way, Curious, Increase

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “My Ishmael”, p.65, Bantam

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• They [intellectuals] coined most of the slogans that guided the butcheries of Bolshevism, Fascism, and Nazism. Intellectuals extolling the delights of murder, writers advocating censorship, philosophers judging the merits of thinkers and authors, not according to the value of their contributions but according to their achievements on battlefields, are the spiritual leaders of our age of perpetual strife.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Spiritual, Judging, Leader

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• Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary by sense.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Thinking, Vocabulary, Progress

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• A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Success, Atheist

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.108, Vintage

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• For the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that Love is the ultimate and highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Change, Song

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.35, Beacon Press

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• I've spent most of my life trying to think my way to happiness, and my failure to achieve that goal only proves, in my mind, that I am not a good enough thinker. It never occurred to me that the source of my unhappiness is not flawed thinking but thinking itself.

  Eric Weiner

  Thinking, Goal, Mind

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

  Earl Butz

  Trying, Negative

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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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• I just take the Bible for what it is, I guess, and recognize that I am not a scientist, not trained to be a scientist. I'm not a deep thinker on all of this. I wish I was. I wish I was more knowledgeable, but I'm not a scientist.

  Michele Bachmann

  Wish, Scientist, Knowledgeable

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