Colleagues Quote by Anonymous

A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought.

— Frank Moore Colby

Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository…

— Carol Shields

Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.

— Luc de Clapiers

A new thinker is only one who does not know what the old thinkers have thought

— Frank Moore Colby

A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The public, too, has to make an effort in order to understand the writer who, though he renounce complacent obscurity, cannot always express his…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

One who is caught in thought loses one's original nature. All he knows are words and descriptions. When he sees the actual thing, he…

— Dalai Lama

Every man who speaks out loud and clear is tinting the "Zeitgeist." Every man who expresses what he honestly thinks is true is changing…

— Elbert Hubbard

Consultation and compliance can conduce little to the perfection of any literary performance; for whoever is so doubtful of his own abilities as to…

— Samuel Johnson

“The true reader must be an extension of the author. He is the higher court that receives the case already prepared by the lower…

— Novalis

The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas.

— Napoleon Hill

You can write a radical Norwegian or a conservative Norwegian. And when I changed to a conservative Norwegian, I gained this distance or objectivity…

— Karl Ove Knausgaard