Thinker Quotes
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There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man.
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A hero holds purposes appropriate to man and is, therefore, a thinker.
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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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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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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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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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Well, I outline fanatically. I am a long thinker and a slow writer, though I am trying to get faster.
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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 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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Man is a slow, sloppy and brilliant thinker; the machine is fast, accurate and stupid.
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A thinker reverses roles and sees the perspectives of others.
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You can't be a good writer without being a good thinker.
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The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers.
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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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A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it.
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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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I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker and you have to stop all that to write a novel.
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I wouldn't say I was a born writer; I'm a born thinker.
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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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Any positive thinker is compelled to see everything in the light of his own convictions.
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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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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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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.
