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“Independent thinkers are usually geniuses or idiots and at times it's hard to tell which.”

“A thinker reverses roles and sees the perspectives of others.”

“If you're an original thinker, you are going get told 'no' a lot, and you have to be able to hear 'no' many times from the bankers and trust that at some point, someone is going to recognize that you are an artist and not a can of soda.”

Ifs Able Artist Originals Thinker Bankers Soda

Author:Nick Offerman

“Darwin paid particular attention to disconfirming evidence. Objectivity maintenance routines are totally required in life if you're going to be a great thinker.”

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Author:Charlie Munger

“It is characteristic of fundamental discoveries, of great achievements of the intellect, that they retain an undiminished power upon the imagination of the thinker. The memorable experiment of Faraday with a disc rotating between two poles of a magnet, which has borne such magnificent fruit, has long passed into every-day experience; yet there are certain features about this embryo of the present dynamos and motors which even today appear to us striking, and are worthy of the most careful study.”

“No nation like the United States of America can continue to grow and be a strong nation if we are going to judge people because they disagree with our agenda rather than the content of their statements. We have to be critical thinkers. We have to be analytical. We should understand facts from emotion.”

People Ifs Should States Facts America Strong Nations Grows United Emotion United States Judging Critical Statements Agendas Thinker Disagree United States Of America

Author:Steve King

“"Work" does not exist in a nonliterate world. The primitive hunter or fisherman did no work, any more than does the poet, painter, or thinker of today. Where the whole man is involved there is no work.”

Men World Doe Whole Today Poet Involved Painter Thinker Primitive Hunters Fisherman

Book:Understanding media: the extensions of man

Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man

“When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.”

Thinking Suffering Thinker Sufferers

Author:Karl Marx

“Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking process started, because what you put in always impacts what comes out.”

Thinking Looks Ideas Process Impact Prime Thinker Pumps Thinking Process

Author:John C. Maxwell

“You can be a business thinker.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“Thinkers are as scarce as gold.”

Gold Thinker Scarce

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“Steinitz was a thinker worthy of a seat in the halls of a university. A player, as the world believed he was, he was not; his studious temperament made that impossible; and thus he was conquered by a player and in the end little valued by the world, he died.”

World Littles Made Ends Player Impossible Died University Worthy Seats Halls Thinker Temperament Studious

Book:Lasker's Manual of Chess

Source: Lasker's Manual of Chess

“The idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy - even beyond the market opportunities - that's something that appropriately ought to be done.”

Thinking Ideas Done Opportunity Company Ought Thinker Innovative Needy

Author:Bill Gates

“A society with too few independent thinkers is vulnerable to control by disturbed and opportunistic leaders. A society which wants to create and maintain a free and democratic social system must create responsible independence of thought among its young.”

Want Young Social Leader Responsible Independent Independence Democratic Vulnerable Thinker Disturbed Social Systems Independence Of Thought

Author:John Dewey

“Dave [Holland] plays the way he wants to play. And it's usually what's needed. You know, Dave is such a deep thinker. You can't tell him too much, else it might spoil his spirit, you know.”

Knows Way Want Play Might Spirit Too Much Needed Thinker Spoil Dave Holland Deep Thinker

Author:Miles Davis

“I'm a deep thinker when it comes to shallow no brainers.”

Thinker Shallow No Brainer Deep Thinker

Author:Dane Cook

“In the case of Michael Moore, having a deep, I'd even say passionate, understanding of other types of people in America who might be progressive thinkers without even realizing it.”

People Might America Understanding Realizing Cases Type Passionate Progressive Thinker

Author:Jello Biafra

“I want to take my American friends back to the end of World War II, when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was formulated. A group of thinkers met to come up with ways and means to prevent yet another war. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt played a crucial role in assembling this group of people. And that is why the name of the United States is synonymous with the cause of human rights around the world.”

“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.”

People Thinking Real Might Guy Smart Thinker Smart Guy

Author:Colin Quinn

“I think that a visual artist's philosophy develops much more freely than a writer's or a thinker's philosophy. It is not so disciplined. The photographer works with both his eyes and his mind.”

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Author:Manuel Alvarez Bravo

“We need to understand that Jesus is a thinker, that this is not a dirty word but an essential work, and that his other attributes do not preclude thought, but only ensure that he is certainly the greatest thinker of the human race: "the most intelligent person who ever lived on earth"”

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Author:Dallas Willard

“The Logos was both that which thought, and the thing which it thought: thinker and thought together. The universe, then, is thinker and thought, and since we are part of it, we as humans are, in the final analysis, thoughts of and thinkers of those thoughts.”

Humans Together Universe Finals Analysis Thinker Logos

Book:I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

Source: I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

“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.”

Thinking Mind Humans Kind Reason Resources Profound Strongest Thinker Superficial Unbelief Human Reason

Book:Salmonia: or, Days of fly fishing ... By an Angler i.e. Sir Humphry Davy . Third edition. With plates

Source: Salmonia: or, Days of fly fishing ... By an Angler i.e. Sir Humphry Davy . Third edition. With plates

“Is there any man that thinks in chains like the man who calls himself a free-thinker? Is there any man so credulous as the man who will not believe in the Bible? He swallows a ton of difficulties, and yet complains that we have swallowed an ounce of them. He has much more need of faith of a certain sort than we have, for skepticism has far harder problems than faith.”

Thinking Men Needs Believe Problem Certain He Man Difficulty Harder Complaining Chains Thinker Skepticism Free Thinkers

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“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.”

Way Stories Problem Study Taken Groups Slave Contact Indian Thinker American Indian Whiteness Lead In Folktales

Author:David Roediger

“There are so many ways to help, by either sharing your skills or expertise, joining our board of directors or advisory boards, and donating. Regardless of what or how you share with ISF, we recognize that we don't have all the answers, and that solutions lie not in commonality but in diversity. Welcoming a broad range of thinkers, creators, and doers is what makes this organization thrive.”

“Hayek, in my view, is the leading economic thinker of the 20th century.”

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Author:Vernon L. Smith

“Audiences of critical thinkers are my favorite kinds of audiences. There are jokes I tell in the show that don't get laughs unless I am in front of an audience of critical thinkers. Put me in front of a crowd of science teachers or astronauts! The guileless aren't our audience - it's the critical thinkers we love.”

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Author:Adam Savage

“I'm a thinker not a talker.”

Thinker Talkers

Author:David Bowie

“Philosophers talk about truth and falsehood. People in life talk about payoff, exposure, and consequences (risks and rewards), hence fragility and antifragility. And sometimes philosophers and thinkers and those who study conflate Truth with risks and rewards.”

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Book:Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile

Source: Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile

“The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.”

Thinking Sin Majors Treats Arrogance Thinker

Author:Edward de Bono

“We who don't want radical Islam to spread must compete with the agents of radical Islam. I want to see what would happen if Christians, feminists and Enlightenment thinkers were to start proselytizing in the Muslim community.”

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Author:Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“This famous quote hangs over my desk, as well as the desks of many people with the hubris and optimism to believe they can change the world for the better. It seems implausible, yet time and again history has proven it true. Virtually every major shift in cultural history can trace its origins to the work of a small group, often gathered around an innovative thinker or body of thought.”

People World Believe Wells Body Seems Groups Majors Optimism Changing The World Thinker Desks Proven Innovative Small Groups Hubris Hang Over

Author:Alan AtKisson

“To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.”

Wise Deny Neglect Thinker Wise Sayings Truest Great Thinkers

Author:William James

“It has long been believed that a man who gets bald across the front of his head is a thinker while a man who gets bald on the crown of his head is a lover. It follows, certainly, that a man who gets bald all over his head thinks he's a lover.”

Thinking Men Long Fronts Lovers Over It Thinker Crowns

Author:L. M. Boyd

“Mr. Bush has squandered the hard-built paternity of 40 years. But so has the party, and so have its leaders. If they had pushed away for serious reasons, they could have separated the party's fortunes from the president's. This would have left a painfully broken party, but they wouldn't be left with a ruined brand,- as they all say, speaking the language of marketing. And they speak that language because they are marketers, not thinkers. Not serious about policy. Not serious about ideas. And not serious about leadership, only followership.”

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Author:Peggy Noonan

“Our Government is fostering economic growth in Kitchener, Cambridge and all of the Waterloo Region by investing in our innovative businesses. Today's announcement is a great example of how we are helping high-potential companies bring great ideas to market faster. Helping our entrepreneurs and original thinkers export their products and services to the rest of the world creates jobs, growth and economic prosperity here at home.”

“Some writers are writing one great, big book and just taking all these different avenues towards it. They might seem on the outside to be different, but they're really not. And that's a different kind of mindset. I don't know why it is, but I just feel like I really want to escape myself as much as I can - myself as the artist, or as the writer, or as the thinker - with each new project, because one, it's just boredom, but also, I guess I just feel most comfortable starting a new book if I just feel a little in the dark about it.”

“I think that a true economics thinker or a Marxist thinker would make nonsense of my argument, although I have given massive seminars and no one has demolished it so far. I did think that this idea from an artisanal and trading perception of the auratic quality of goods when they are given character and inscription, made the stories of phantasmic wealth read more powerfully in the 18th and 19th centuries than the stories of Cinderella's wealth, because they are conjured out of nothing by these magic means.”

Thinking Mean Made Ideas Character Stories Given Wealth Quality Magic Century Perception Economics Argument Nonsense Massive Goods Thinker Trading 19th Century Marxist Inscriptions Seminars

Author:Marina Warner

“As a kid you learn that there are thinkers and there are philosophers and there are theologian, and I'd hear little bits of the ideas that these people pursued or developed or created and I'd be really excited. Then I'll start to read it and I think, "Wait a minute, this is a rabbit hole. This isn't a gateway or a ticket to anything except itself."”

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Author:Will Oldham

“Us visual thinkers like me, be good at things like industrial design, graphics, art, those kind of jobs.”

Kind Art Jobs Design Be Good Like Me Visuals Thinker Industrial Design

Author:Temple Grandin

“There are Harvard grads, free thinkers, feminists, abolitionists, well-to-do people who want to go write poetry and live on a farm and cook and laugh and have a good time. As they themselves described it, it was an "inward facing" community. They were focusing on making a better existence for themselves, which I think is also the driving force of 20th century communalism in the US, the thought being that the world is corrupt, and we're going to build this little garden of innocence.”

“Perhaps unsurprisingly, there's a paradox here! Kierkegaard's own indirect communication proposes that we start with the experience of those who don't believe and meet them on their own ground. His success in doing this is evidenced by the fact that, at least for some periods of the 20th century, aspects of his work became a major focus for radical thinkers of various kinds, including the non-religious and, interestingly, a significant number of Jewish thinkers (Buber, Rosenzweig, Taubes, and others).”

“In many inner cities, there are issues of less economic stability, poorer education, community centers being stripped away, arts being removed from the school system leaving many children imbalanced, isolated from their most powerful self... the independent thinker, the creator, the dreamer often leaving children more susceptible to other harmful things out of boredom or feelings of rejection.”

“The balance between literature and philosophy in Schopenhauer and Nietzsche is different from that struck in the novella, but, as Mann clearly pointed out in his writings about both thinkers, both modes are present.”

Writing Different Philosophy Literature Balance Thinker

Author:Philip Kitcher

“For most of my life, I was a worrier and an over-thinker. I had pretty bad social anxiety.”

Social Anxiety Thinker Social Anxiety

Author:Rob Corddry

“People are a lot more open than even they think they are. And I feel like I carry a heavy story about where I come from and those roots, but also what I like as a thinker.”

People Thinking Feels Stories Roots Heavy Thinker

Author:Lizz Wright

“People who are great thinkers, in science or in art, people who are great performers, have to have that kind of capacity. Without that kind of capacity, it's extremely difficult to manage a high level of performance because you're going to get a lot of extraneous material chipping away at the finery of your thinking or the finery of your motor execution.”

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Author:Antonio Damasio

“The biggest thinker that's influenced my feminism is definitely Bell Hooks, who's a feminist cultural critic, because of her accessibility but also just because she's a genius.”

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Author:Jessica Valenti

“Well, it's an ancestral tribe. These were immigrants from north of Germany who came here about the time of the Civil War, but anyway, these people called themselves free thinkers. They were impressed, incidentally, by Darwin. They're called Humanists now; people who aren't so sure that the Bible is the Word of God.”

People Wells War Civil War Germany Immigrants Thinker Word Of God Impressed Tribes Free Thinkers

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

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