Thinkers Quotes
239 Thinkers quotes by 192 unique authors
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The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers..
— Edgar Fiedler
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My heart was filled with gratitude, with thankfulness, and went out in love to all the heroes, the thinkers who gave their lives for the…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are…
— John Polkinghorne
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The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a…
— Carroll Quigley
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I believe that our very survival depends upon us becoming better systems thinkers.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
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The Warrior listens to the words of certain thinkers.
— Paulo Coelho
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The underlying assumption that human nature is basically the same at all times, everywhere, and obeys eternal laws beyond human control, is a conception that…
— Isaiah Berlin
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My only wish isto transform friends of God into friends of man, believers into thinkers, devotees of prayer into devotees of work, candidates for the…
— Ludwig Feuerbach
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Talk of world peace is heard today only among the white peoples, and not among the much more numerous coloured races. This is a perilous…
— Oswald Spengler
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Positive thinkers get positive results because they are not afraid of problems.
— Ken Blanchard
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Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and right and wrong,…
— John Owen
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Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological movements of their…
— Wilhelm Dilthey
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A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much…
— Robert Musil
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The Truth about Leo Strauss is the most balanced and insightful book yet written about Strauss's thought, students, and political influence. It dispels myths promulgated…
— William Galston
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We humans, though troubled and warlike, are also the dreams, thinkers, and explorers inhabiting one achingly beautiful planet, yearning for the sublime, and capable of…
— Carolyn Porco
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Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.
— Gabriel Marcel
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For ten centuries Christianity, armed with the omnipotence of the Church and State and opposed by no competition, was able to deprave, debase, and falsify…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your…
— Seneca the Younger
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[Women] tend to collect more pieces of data when they think, put them into more complex patterns, see more options and outcomes. They tend to…
— Helen Fisher
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Thinkers perish, thoughts don't.
— Malcolm Forbes
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We are not taught to be thinkers, but reflectors of our culture. Let's teach our children to be thinkers.
— Jacque Fresco
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There is a real connection between culture and climate change. We all have a part to play and if you engage with life, you will…
— Vivienne Westwood
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Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas.
— Carl L. Becker
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Slow thinkers are part of the game too. Some of these slow thinkers can hit a ball a long way.
— Alvin Dark
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