Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.
From Gadamer I learned that to understand a given thinker requires one to presuppose that he is right.
You label somebody 'New Age,' and that's automatic mockery: 'She cannot possibly be a serious thinker.'
A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought.
I'm a bit of a thinker so I think a lot, and process a lot, and it always evolves into something different.
We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers.
George Harrison was known as the quiet Beatle. Quiet people are often quiet because they are deep thinkers.
I'm admittedly a record guy. Singles and I are a different beast. I'm definitely an overall picture thinker.
Ross Perot came and visited Apple several times and visited the Macintosh factory. Ross was a systems thinker.
The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.
I'm very good in math, and I'm a logical thinker. I don't get wrapped up in things or even wrapped up in myself.
We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.
Emerson's fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.
They can ta'k our lives but they can never ta'k our freedom!' Now there's a battle cry not designed by a clear thinker
I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print.
A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.
Make a list of your friends and determine who is the most positive thinker among them and deliberately cultivate his society.
You can think negatively or positively. If you are a positive thinker, you will base your decisions on faith rather than fear.
I'm an independent thinker. I am a woman. I am a Republican. And I think for myself, and I decide where I vote and how I vote.
Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.
The mark of the superior thinker is his or her ability to accurately predict the consequences of doing or not doing something.
Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious.
The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.
I have learned more from Hayek than from any other living thinker, except perhaps Alfred Tarski - but not even excepting Russell.
It always is a battle for a Republican in Connecticut, even one who's a moderate like I am, and one who's an independent thinker.
It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism.
Brock Lesnar is an extraordinary, underrated forward thinker. Every day of Brock's life, he is smarter than he was the day before.
A legacy, or things like that, I've never really been a big thinker in that way. You know, it's kind of just been trying to go each day.
I have epiphanies all the time, because I'm always thinking. I'm a thinker. I'm always writing poetry, I'm always coming to conclusions.
I'm an independent thinker. And I'm not the poster child for any movement. I'm trying to support whatever's right no matter where it is.
You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't be an Olympic athlete if you don't train regularly.
I wouldn't say I'm a very original thinker, but if I have a good experience with something, I'll want to take it further or adapt it in some way.
I'm a visual thinker, thrill seeker, and I'm easily distracted. I see everything I'm writing, and I think it naturally affects the pace of things.
I think I've done a good job in the industry from the standpoint of employee morale and customer satisfaction, and as an innovative thinker in tech.
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.
Larry Page, co-founder of Google, is an unbelievable big thinker, and there was a saying in Google that if you wanted to know the future, go to Larry.
The universe can best be pictured as consisting of pure thought, the thought of what for want of a better word we must describe as a mathematical thinker.
No earnest thinker is a plagiarist pure and simple. He will never borrow from others that which he has not already, more or less, thought out for himself.
It took time for me to step away and become an independent thinker so that wherever I am in the world, I understand who I am and that nothing's impossible.
For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker.
I think Phil Dick was particularly interesting in that, first of all, he was a very modern man and a very modern thinker, but I don't know what demons drove him.
The vertical thinker says: 'I know what I am looking for.' The lateral thinker says: 'I am looking but I won't know what I am looking for until I have found it.'
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.
My take, after spending some time with him, is that Kanye West is not a conservative. He's not a Republican, but he is a free thinker, and he's an independent thinker.
I would say Gary Snyder, who is from my part of the world as a poet and environmental thinker, will be read just as Henry Thoreau as John Muir will continue to be read.
On one level, I am a massive joker and can't take anything seriously, but on the other hand, I'm incredibly serious and a deep thinker, so I have that dichotomy within me.
To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.
I really am a thinker. I don't do things rash. I know some of the things I've said or the way I act seem rash. But I do take ownership of it. I don't say things I don't mean.
I think I identify more with the smart guy, but most people might take umbrage at that. I like to think of myself as a real thinker, but I suppose people might beg to differ.