Thinking People Quotes

36 quotes by 34 authors

Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones. — Natalie Clifford Barney
The aim of those who try to control thought is always the same. They find one single explanation of the world, one system of thought… — Gilbert Highet
It is the abiding concern of thinking people to preserve what keeps men human-to save our contact with nature of which we are a part. — Wallace Stegner
The third group [of society] are those irresponsible and reckless ones having little regard for the consequences of their acts, or whose religious scruples prevent… — Margaret Sanger
Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten… — Michael J. Gelb
Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals the fierce conflicts of… — Howard Zinn
There is no task of greater importance than to give our children the very best preparation for the demands of an ominous future, a preparation… — Bruno Walter
I cannot but feel that the one man, above all others, who deserves the eternal thanks of his own race, and all thinking people, for… — Ford Frick
At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.… — George Orwell
We are creating and encouraging a culture of distraction where we are increasingly disconnected from the people and events around us, and increasingly unable to… — Joe Kraus
Present thinking people kill the future. — Ken Blanchard
All thinking people oppose terrorism both domestic & international but one should not be used to cover the other — Amiri Baraka
True love, it's like an illness. I never understood it before. In books and plays. Poems. I never understood what drove otherwise intelligent, right-thinking people… — Kate Morton
How can thinking people believe that a government that cannot deliver the mail can deliver gas better than Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, Gulf, and the rest? — Milton Friedman
Right-thinking people are not supposed to discuss any meteorological or geophysical event - a hurricane, a wildfire, a heat wave, a drought, a flood, a… — Joel Achenbach
An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people-it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the… — John Keats
I grew up in Los Angeles, and I've made movies all over the world... I've been in New York, Norway, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, London -… — John Landis
It's hard to mix with a crowd when you're walking down the hallway and everybody else is a foot shorter. I remember hanging out with… — Randy Johnson
The problem with University degrees, particularly the more spectacular ones, is that people who possess them can fall into the trap of thinking people who… — Robert Genn
I hate the way people use slide presentations instead of thinking. People would confront a problem by creating a presentation. I wanted them to engage,… — Steve Jobs

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