Thinkers Quotes
239 quotes by 200 authors
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Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie…
— Russell Baker
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Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way…
— Edward de Bono
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I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don't acquire any identity or self-image of themselves…
— Edward de Bono
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Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.
— Alain de Botton
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Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their…
— Benjamin Carson
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The founding fathers were not only brilliant, they were system builders and systematic thinkers. They came up with comprehensive plans and visions.
— Ron Chernow
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Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps,…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.
— Emile M. Cioran
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When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of…
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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If only our great thinkers could learn to talk, and our great talkers could learn to think.
— Ashleigh Brilliant
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This nation was built by men who took risks-pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, businessmen who were not afraid of failure, scientists who…
— Brooks Atkinson
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Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker on record, David Hume: a…
— John Stuart Mill
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God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.
— Harriet Martineau
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I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
— Hippolyte Taine
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No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of the Epistles were…
— George MacDonald
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Know thyself! This is the source of all wisdom, said the great thinkers of the past, and the sentence was written in golden letters on…
— Karl Ernst von Baer
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We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers.
— Joseph Chilton Pearce
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There is no violent surface indication of the ecstasy which great thinkers alone enjoy. There is nothing dramatic about it, but there is some subtle…
— Walter Russell
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