Thinker Quotes
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There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man.
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For me Henry Corbin, the way that he writes about certain esoteric matters, is in a phenomenological way that refuses a New Age lens. But at the same time he's very much responsible for a lot of New Age thought, because he was a very syncretic thinker.
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Now, don't get me wrong: I'm not rubbishing penal substitution. But there are other options that have been advocated by Reformed thinkers of the past.
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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 mind.
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How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books?
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The sexiest people are thinkers. Nobody's interested in somebody who's just vain with a hole in their head, talking about the latest thing - there is no latest thing. It's all rubbish.
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I just know that I'm innovative. I'm a quick thinker... In Washington, I just want to be a senator who finds a way to drive change and not figure out a way to conform.
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The positive thinker, on the contrary, constantly sends out positive thoughts, together with vital mental images of hope, optimism and creativity. He therefore activates the world around him positively and strongly tends to draw back to himself positive results. This, too, is a basic law of mind action.
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Well, I outline fanatically. I am a long thinker and a slow writer, though I am trying to get faster.
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A thinker reverses roles and sees the perspectives of others.
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I believe that pity is a law like justice, and that kindness is a duty like uprightness. That which is weak has a right to the kindness and pity of that which is strong. In the relations of man with the animals...there is a great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to humans ethics. Are there not here unsounded depths for the thinker? Is one to think oneself mad because one has the sentiment of universal pity in one's heart?
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You can't be a good writer without being a good thinker.
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Not surprisingly, thinkers from groups for whom whiteness was and is a problem have taken the lead in studying whiteness in this way. Such study began with slave folktales and American Indian stories of contact with whites.
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The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers.
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A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it.
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Man is a slow, sloppy and brilliant thinker; the machine is fast, accurate and stupid.
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I wouldn't say I was a born writer; I'm a born thinker.
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Any positive thinker is compelled to see everything in the light of his own convictions.
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When obstacles or difficulties arise, the positive thinker takes them as creative opportunities.
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Giorgio Agamben is possibly the most delicate and probing thinker since Walter Benjamin.
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Profound minds are the most likely to think lightly of the resources of human reason, and it is the superficial thinker who is generally strongest in every kind of unbelief.
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I do not think that G. H. Hardy was talking nonsense when he insisted that the mathematician was discovering rather than creating... The world for me is a necessary system, and in the degree to which the thinker can surrender his thought to that system and follow it, he is in a sense participating in that which is timeless or eternal.
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A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it. Positive thinking is a form of thought which habitually looks for the best results from the worst conditions.
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I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker and you have to stop all that to write a novel.
