I think that James Baldwin is, for sure, one of the most important American writer/thinkers of his time... not just African-American. He… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
George Orwell famously described international sport as 'war minus the shooting'. But for all Orwell's greatness as a thinker, this was one… — Gideon Haigh Copy Share Image
Ownership of thought depends on the thinker not subordinating himself to a 'ruling thought'. This is particularly difficult, argues Stirner, ... for… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
Every time we bring someone in we ensure that they are a strategic thinker, but even more important that they understand that… — David Rose Copy Share Image
“The only true free-thinker is he whose intellect is as much free from the future as from the past. He cares as… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Not every alt-right thinker or activist is a white nationalist, by far, but there's a sense that political correctness is a bigger… — David Weigel Copy Share Image
Except in the rare cases of great dynamic thinkers whose thoughts are as turning-points in the history of our race, it is… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Positive thinkers think and talk continually about solutions, and negative thinkers continually talk and think about problems. Keep your mind solution-focuse d… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Each part of the mind sees only a little of what happens in some others, and that little is swiftly refined, reformulated… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
Is there any man that thinks in chains like the man who calls himself a free-thinker? Is there any man so credulous… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I have observed that male writers tend to get asked what they think and women what they feel. In my experience, and… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
“No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize, that as a thinker his first duty is to follow his… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I came to Paul at quite an early age, having already studied Plato and Aristotle; and I found Paul easily their intellectual… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
When [Allen] Ginsberg and I founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics - that was 1974 - we referred to it… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it. Positive thinking is a form of… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
“A great thinker does not necessary have to discover a master idea but has to rediscover and to affirm a true but… — Wan Mohd Nor Wan Daud Copy Share Image
An ideology is a complex of ideas or notions which represents itself to the thinker as an absolute truth for the interpretation… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified. Today the greatest divide within humanity… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one:… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
I absolutely loved working with Tim Burton because he is just a creative, outside of the box thinker. How he does things… — Atticus Shaffer Copy Share Image
Profound minds are the most likely to think lightly of the resources of human reason, and it is the superficial thinker who… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I do not believe in God. I'm an atheist. I consider myself a critical thinker, and it fascinates me that in the… — Seth MacFarlane Copy Share Image
James Lovelock is one of the great thinkers of our time. His ideas and inventions have opened up new insights into our… — Chris Rapley Copy Share Image
For instance, there are many mainstream Reformed theologians that deny the doctrine of "limited" atonement (the "L" in TULIP, the acrostic for… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
People are a lot more open than even they think they are. And I feel like I carry a heavy story about… — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
I always tell my students that Malcolm X came both to his spirituality and to his consciousness as a thinker when he… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are the main thing. If they are… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You have to give credit where credit's due. Steve [Jobs] has been probably the single hardware/software forward-looking thinker and executor in our… — Christopher Galvin Copy Share Image
I consider Paine our greatest political thinker. As we have not advanced, and perhaps never shall advance, beyond the Declaration and Constitution,… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“I once renounced my home in Calcutta, and roamed around the villages of Bengal as a monk. But after I attained the… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Try to be original in your play and as clever as possible; but don't be afraid to show yourself foolish; we must… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Tabloid discussion of bad children always blames baby-boomer liberals, careerist mothers and fashion-crazed Nathan Barley types who think it's all enormously funny.… — Peter York Copy Share Image
The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
No more than a famous master can be replaced and another take over the completion of the half-finished painting he has left… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
“When Albert Einstein told you to hide your source, he wasn't giving you a deliberate advice to conceal the root in which… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image