Thinking Man Quotes - Page 2

• All thinking men are atheists.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Death, Atheist

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.4, Hamilton Books

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• I was in high school when Will Ferrell was first on 'Saturday Night Live', and I remember thinking, 'Man, that guy is the funniest guy ever.'

  Seth Rogen

  Funny, School, Night

  Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. December 13, 2005.

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• Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Learning, Men, Thinking

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• The bottom line is that every single member of Congress has to get voted into office every two or six years. That means they need to look really good in their home district and state. That means good local press. That means people in their district thinking, "Man, I really don't like Congress, but I like Senator Bob."

  Ezra G. Levin

  Home, Mean, Men

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• May God prevent us from becoming "right-thinking men"-that is to say men who agree perfectly with their own police.

  Thomas Merton

  Men, Thinking, Police

  Thomas Merton (2009). “Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander”, p.248, Image

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• Great problems are now being handled, keeping every thinking man in suspense; the unity or multiplicity of human races; the creation of man 1,000 years or 1,000 centuries ago; the fixity of species, or the slow and progressive transformation of one species into another; the eternity of matter; the idea of a God unnecessary: such are some of the questions that humanity discusses nowadays.

  Louis Pasteur

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

  Address at the "Sorbonne Scientific Soirée" on April 07, 1864. "The Life of Pasteur". Book by René Vallery-Radot, translated by R .L. Devonshire, p. 140, archive.org. 1902.

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• The statistician cannot excuse himself from the duty of getting his head clear on the principles of scientific inference, but equally no other thinking man can avoid a like obligation.

  Ronald Fisher

  Science, Men, Thinking

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• Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape.

  Anton Chekhov

  Thinking, Maturity, Men

  Anton Chekhov (2015). “Anton Chekhov: The Collected Novellas and Short Stories in Multiple Translations: Over 200 Stories From the Renowned Russian Playwright and Author of Uncle Vanya, Cherry Orchard and The Three Sisters in Multiple Translations including Ward No. 6 , The Lady with the Dog and Others”, p.1929, e-artnow

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• I'm thinking, 'Man, there's this whole other group of people that are attached to me because of my last name and my family's roots.' That's pretty cool. That's special, that's a lot of power and it's important.

  Mark Sanchez

  Men, Thinking, Names

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• One right-thinking man thinks like all other right-thinking men of his time that is to say, in most cases, like some wrong-thinking man of another time.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Thinking, Cases

  Aldous Huxley (1956). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• In Paris, I didn't want to be friends with people in fashion. I wanted to get into a philosophical society where all the thinking men were.

  Jean-Charles de Castelbajac

  Fashion, Philosophical, Men

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think metal draws dumb people. It's not exactly a thinking man's genre.

  Blake Judd

  Men, Thinking, People

  "Don't Call It a Rip-Off". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

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• Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Thinking, Hunting

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• Revenge is the thinking man's reflex, a complex blend of action and consistency no other animal species has so far succeeded in evolving. Evolutionary speaking, the practice of taking revenge has shown itself to the so effective that only the most vengeful of us have survived.

  Jo Nesbo

  Revenge, Animal, Men

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• Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet - a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Jesus, Men, Thinking

  Frederick William Robertson (1850). “An address delivered to the members of the Working Man's Institute, at the Town Hall, Brighton, on Thursday, April 18, 1850, on the question of the introduction of sceptical publications into the library”, p.22

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• I've had six or eight hookers in my life. I never woke up the next day thinking man I'm glad I got a hooker last night.

  Doug Stanhope

  Night, Men, Thinking

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• Thinking man's crumpet? Well, it's more flattering than being a lobotomised man's crumpet, I suppose.

  Gillian Anderson

  Men, Thinking, Crumpets

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• Doom is thinking-man's heavy, something you climb into and not only discover the riffs and depth of the music, but also you also climb into yourself and explore the inner environment.

  Mike Scheidt

  Men, Thinking, Depth

  "Show No Mercy". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. July 17, 2009.

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• All coaches are thinking men, or else they wouldn't survive.

  Joe Paterno

  Men, Thinking, Coaches

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• Society of thinking men! This kind of society has only one destiny: To Rise!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Destiny, Men, Thinking

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• It is time the clergy are told that thinking men, after a close examination of that doctrine, pronounce it to be subversive of true moral development and, therefore, positively noxious.

  George Eliot

  Men, Thinking, Atheism

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• The wind whips through the canyons of the American Southwest, and there is no one to hear it but us - a reminder of the 40,000 generations of thinking men and women who preceded us, about whom we know almost nothing, upon whom our civilization is based.

  Carl Sagan

  Men, Thinking, Wind

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.67, Ballantine Books

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• In the mid nineteenth century, the typical murderer was a drunken illiterate; a hundred years later the typical murderer regards himself as a thinking man.

  Colin Wilson

  Men, Thinking, Years

  "The Encyclopedia of Modern Murder 1962-1983". Book by Colin Wilson, Introductory Essay, p. xiv, 1983.

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• Sid Vicious is a thinking man's wrestler!

  Larry Zbyszko

  Men, Thinking, Sids

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• The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Thinking, Joy

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