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• Everyone pretends to be 'free thinkers', but few individuals pass the line into expressive territories that may be detrimental to their own social well-being.

  Criss Jami

  Lines, May, Territory

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.126, Criss Jami

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• An ideology is a complex of ideas or notions which represents itself to the thinker as an absolute truth for the interpretation of the world and his situation within it; it leads the thinker to accomplish an act of self-deception for the purpose of justification, obfuscation and evasion in some sense or other to his advantage.

  Karl Jaspers

  Self, Ideas, Deception

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• The world glows all the time. All of the things that you have come to understand aren't. The greatest thinkers in the world see very little compared to the enlightened.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Science, World

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• Two-factor economics makes it clear that our economic problem is not what one-factor (labor-centric) thinkers assert: an inequitable distribution of income. It is an inequitable distribution of productive power, from which an unworkable distribution of income results.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Two, Income

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• The intellectual power, honesty, lucidity, courage, and disinterested love of the truth of the most gifted thinkers of the eighteenth century remain to this day without parallel. Their age is one of the best and most hopeful episodes in the life of mankind.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Honesty, Hopeful, Intellectual

  Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy (2001). “The Power of Ideas”, p.52, Princeton University Press

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• Thinkers are scarce as gold; but he whose thoughts embrace all his subject, and who pursues it uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences, is a diamond of enormous size.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Fearless, Gold, Size

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• Ceaseless optimism about the future only makes for a greater shock when things go wrong; by fighting to maintain only positive beliefs about the future, the positive thinker ends up being less prepared, and more acutely distressed, when things eventually happen that he can't persuade himself to believe are good.

  Oliver Burkeman

  Believe, Fighting, Optimism

  "The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking". Book by Oliver Burkeman, www.newyorker.com. 2012.

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• Conclusion: better to be a thinking monk than a postmodern thinker.

  Muriel Barbery

  Thinking, Monk, Conclusion

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• It is doubtful whether our present system of popular education does not retard independent or self thinking as much as it promotes it. All genuine education is self-education. It will incite the individual to think for himself, by rethinking what the race's great thinkers have already thought for him, thus enabling him to go ahead under his own mental steam.

  Joseph Alexander Leighton

  Independent, Thinking, Race

  Joseph Alexander Leighton (1919). “The field of philosophy: an outline of lectures on introduction to philosophy”

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• No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon , the least confused thinker its Socrates , the least commonplace poet its Shakespeare .

  George Bernard Shaw

  Confused, Hero, Age

  George Bernard Shaw (1968). “Four Plays by Bernard Shaw”, Pocket Books

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• Make a list of your friends and determine who is the most positive thinker among them and deliberately cultivate his society.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational Life, Lists, Determine

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

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• The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of attention.

  Boris Sidis

  Men, Artist, Attention

  "The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology" by Boris Sidis, (p. 98), 1914.

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• I think we want our kids to grow up to be people who can think outside of the box, be creative and innovators, sort of the forward-thinkers of our future. I think a way to inspire that is through art and music.

  Angela Kinsey

  Art, Growing Up, Kids

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• Hip-hop artist, especially the older ones, are the ones who new hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.

  Nas

  Artist, Hip Hop, Want

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• Certainly the research shows that grateful people are more innovative thinkers.

  Deborah Norville

  Grateful, People, Research

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• But that so many scholars are barbarians does not much matter so long as a few of them are ready to help with their specialized knowledge the few independent thinkers, that is to say the poets, who try to to keep civilization alive.

  Robert Graves

  Independent, Civilization, Long

  Robert Graves (2011). “The White Goddess”, p.361, Faber & Faber

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• What I notice about people who are gifted in filmmaking is that they're great thinkers. They engage with big ideas and they engage with people.

  Ben Whishaw

  Ideas, People, Bigs

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I really believe the most handicapped [person] in the whole world is a negative thinker.

  Heather Whitestone

  Believe, Negativity, Negative

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• There have always been a large class of thinkers who deny that the world makes any progress. They say we move in a circle; that evils are never conquered, but only change their forms.

  Lydia M. Child

  Moving, Class, Circles

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• The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic 'right-brain' thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Creativity, Artist, Creative

  "A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future". Book by Daniel H. Pink, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2006.

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• I am inspired by thinkers. I am inspired by rebellion. I am inspired by children. I have been inspired by love. I have been inspired by heartbreak. I try to take everything that comes at me in life. There have been times in my life that I didn't handle things... right. But even though you stumble, you still kind of get through it.

  Nikki Sixx

  Children, Trying, Kind

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• You can't use up creativity, creative thinking builds on itself and increases the creativity of the thinker...You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

  Maya Angelou

  Creativity, Thinking, Creative

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• Some `advanced thinkers' are of the opinion that anyone who differs from the conventional opinion must be in the right. This is a delusion; if it were not, truth would be easier to come by than it is.

  Bertrand Russell

  Would Be, Opinion, Easier

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.62, Routledge

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• (Five) thinkers since Galileo, each informing his successor of what discoveries his own lifetime had seen achieved, might have passed the torch of science into our hands as we sit here in this room. Indeed, for the matter of that, an audience much smaller than the present one, an audience of some 5 or 6 score people, if each person in it could speak for his own generation, would carry us away to the black unknown of the human species, to days without a document or monument to tell their tale.

  William James

  Hands, Discovery, People

  William James (2016). “William James: Essays and Lectures”, p.268, Routledge

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• The judges of England have rarely been original thinkers or great jurists. Many have been craftsmen rather than creators.

  Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin

  Judging, England, Craftsman

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