Quotes with thinkers

  • The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.

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  • Isaac Bashevis Singer Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
    The New York Times (3 December 1978)
    Isaac Bashevis Singer
    Polish Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1978) (1902 - 1991)
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  • Cynthia Ozick I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called ''scientific'' mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.
    Cynthia Ozick
    American writer (1928 - )
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  • Ben Carson Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Norman Tebbit It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.
    Norman Tebbit
    British politician (1931 - )
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  • Alain de Botton Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Harry Mathews Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots.
    Harry Mathews
    American writer (1930 - 2017)
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  • Edward de Bono Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
    Edward de Bono
    Maltese physician, psychologist, philosopher, author and inventor (1933 - )
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  • Alfred Rosenberg Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists.
    Alfred Rosenberg
    German Nazi theorist and ideologue (1893 - 1946)
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  • Harriet Martineau Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.
    Harriet Martineau
    British writer, social criticus (1802 - 1876)
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  • Carroll Quigley The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Agnes Repplier The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • Brooks Atkinson This nation was built by men who took risks - pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, business men who were not afraid of failure, scientists who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers who were not afraid of progress, dreamers who were not afraid of action.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Joseph Chilton Pearce We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers.
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  • Bell Hooks Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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