If H. P. Lovecraft and H. L. Mencken had ever collaborated, they might have come up with something like The Edge of… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
"Work" does not exist in a nonliterate world. The primitive hunter or fisherman did no work, any more than does the poet,… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Mind you, my identity is of no greater value than the dust under your feet. If there is anything valuable that I… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don't acquire any identity or… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
I've always been a big thinker that the more international competition that we create through sports the better relationships we'll have with… — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
Maybe sometimes I'm such a thinker, I reevaluate too much. Sometimes when it comes down to it, I really don't need to… — Michael Chang Copy Share Image
Democracy is the product of human thought and reasoning. It's true that philosophers and thinkers have always imagined a utopia in which… — Simin Behbahani Copy Share Image
It is doubtful whether our present system of popular education does not retard independent or self thinking as much as it promotes… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person… — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
You are so terribly nimble, so clever. I distrust your cleverness. You make a wonderful pattern, everything is in its place, it… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
We use up words like 'spiritual' so fast in this culture. Twenty years ago spiritual had a distinct meaning. But now there's… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“Being a thinker was a various thing. Sometimes you felt like a turtle, with a nice, private built-in place to shelter. Other… — Tricia Springstubb Copy Share Image
To many writers and thinkers, though not to all, another text is, or can be, the most naked and charged of life-forces… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
The intellectual power, honesty, lucidity, courage, and disinterested love of the truth of the most gifted thinkers of the eighteenth century remain… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton has a vision, she has knowledge and judgment. She is a strategic thinker, based on her experience and her connection. — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Very few of us are capable of being Free Thinkers, needing neither to adore nor to insult God, the insult often being… — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective… — Boris Sidis Copy Share Image
A negative thinker makes everything worse, heavier, and harder. A positive thinker makes everything better, lighter, and easier. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
I would say Gary Snyder, who is from my part of the world as a poet and environmental thinker, will be read… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
This is probably the advantage of being stupid. Stupid people just do. We tend to overthink. If we could eliminate the “over”… — Sarah Strohmeyer Copy Share Image
The mark of the superior thinker is his or her ability to accurately predict the consequences of doing or not doing something. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
But as I wrote the book [Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet], I tried to write it as clearly and directly and passionately… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not “the thinker.” The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Creatures extremely low in the intellectual scale may have conception. All that is required is that they should recognize the same experience… — William James Copy Share Image
“O my brave Almighty Human, with the ever-effulgent flow of courage, conscience and compassion, turn yourself into a vivacious humanizer, and start… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Well, it's an ancestral tribe. These were immigrants from north of Germany who came here about the time of the Civil War,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Continental thinkers have been obsessed with bourgeois man as representing the worst and most contemptible failure of modernity, which must at all… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
I believe that there is but One Thinker in the universe; that my thinking is His thinking, and that every man's thinking… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
I was never a "big thinker". One of my philosophies in Linux has always been to not worry about the future too… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
I'm a mad thinker in general. I think about everything, all the time. Especially when I write music, a lot of the… — Adam Hicks Copy Share Image
Throughout history, independent minds have carried mankind forward. Whether they identified how to make fire or manufacture tools, develop rational philosophy or… — Andrew Bernstein Copy Share Image
Osho is one of India's greatest mystics… I see him as one of the world's great teachers, thinkers, philosophers and guides of… — Kabir Bedi Copy Share Image
Violence, contrary to popular belief, is not part of the anarchist philosophy. It has repeatedly been pointed out by anarchist thinkers that… — Vernon Richards Copy Share Image
I'm not a great deductive thinker, but I will admit to having competence in a very wide range of things - not… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image