One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a… — Soren Kierkegaard 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
The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker can feel himself lonely, most positively furthered,… — William James Copy Share Image
I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean,… — Ted Turner Copy Share Image
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the last century the Arab thinker Jamal al-Afghani wrote: 'Every Muslim is sick and his only remedy is in the Koran.'… — Conor Cruise O'Brien Copy Share Image
“I don’t even pretend to believe I know everything; I just believe in arguments God told me I had a pretty good… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The mathematician who is without value to mathematicians, the thinker who is obscure or meaningless to thinkers, the dramatist who fails to… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
A crowd of grade-three thinkers, all shouting the same thing, all warming their hands at the fire of their own prejudices, will… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“The first thinker was, without a doubt, the first man obsessed by why. An unaccustomed mania, not at all contagious: rare indeed… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Thought is the creative power, or the impelling force which causes the creative power to act; thinking in a Certain Way will… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
My political philosophy as a libertarian says that government has no business intervening in any consensual private behavior. My professional ethic as… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
It has long been believed that a man who gets bald across the front of his head is a thinker while a… — L. M. Boyd Copy Share Image
[Osip] Mandelstam, who wasn't a political thinker, loved the idea of the city-state. One of the emblems in his poetry of the… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
I think I identify more with the smart guy, but most people might take umbrage at that. I like to think of… — Colin Quinn Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say I'm a very original thinker, but if I have a good experience with something, I'll want to take it… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
I think that my work is easy to understand because I am not a thinker, I am not a... How can I… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
Coleridge cried; "O God, how glorious it is to live!" Renan asks, "O God, when will it be worth while to live?"… — Ouida Copy Share Image
The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep and conformists. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think! — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A negative thinker makes everything worse, heavier, and harder. A positive thinker makes everything better, lighter, and easier. — Anonymous 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
In choosing not to be a beast, I discovered my humanity. I became autodidactic, self-educated - a critical thinker. — Stanley Williams Copy Share Image
“I am not an individual – I am an idea – an idea of unity – an idea of harmony – an… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I've always been a deep thinker. Since I was a kid I was delving into the very depths of why we existed,… — Missy Higgins Copy Share Image
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