Thinker Quotes - Page 11

• Clearly, Enlightenment thinkers were seeking a God substitute.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Enlightenment, Substitutes, Seeking

  Nancy Pearcey (2015). “Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes”, p.79, David C Cook

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• 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.

  Ken Robinson

  Athlete, Creative, Mind

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• Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the debugging has to be done by others.

  Alan Kay

  People, Trying, Debugging

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• The incessant struggle of the mind to be true to itself, to absorb new truths, to grow, to overcome pressures--these are the painful portion of the independent thinker. Almost his sole reward is the satisfaction of integrity.

  Howard Mumford Jones

  Integrity, Struggle, Independent

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• We forget that we create the situations, then we give our power away by blaming the other person for our frustration. No person, no place, and no thing has any power over us, for “we” are the only thinkers in our mind. We create our experiences, our reality, and everyone in it. When we create peace and harmony and balance in our mind, we will find it in our lives.

  Louise Hay

  Frustration, Reality, Giving

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• Very few of us are capable of being Free Thinkers, needing neither to adore nor to insult God, the insult often being an act of faith more profound than adoration.

  Alexandra David-Neel

  Profound, Being Free, Belief

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• It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.

  Max Planck

  Religious, Soul, Religion

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• when a great war has cut off the young men of a nation it never can be told thereafter what losses of scholars, poets, thinkers and great designers the country and the world have suffered.

  James Vila Blake

  Country, War, Cutting

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• The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God. Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.

  Anthony Trollope

  Equality, Men, Mind

  Anthony Trollope (2014). “An Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.182, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Thinkers, makers and traders are the DNA of the world class company

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Dna, Class, World

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• I'm a discursive thinker, so quotation has played an active role in the structure and content of my books from the beginning.

  Masha Tupitsyn

  Book, Roles, Structure

  "True Lovers are as Rare as True Rebels". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. October 24, 2013.

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• I think most human beings are dualistic thinkers. It gets them through the day. It gives them a sense of superiority and security - that's what the ego wants.

  Richard Rohr

  Thinking, Giving, Ego

  Source: ryanthomasneace.com

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• I'm a thinker; I think too much. So for me to freestyle rap, it's like I'm thinking three, four time steps ahead, and I hate it.

  Andre Benjamin

  Hate, Rap, Thinking

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• The benevolence of wrapping the partridge in a vine leaf brings out its quality, just as the barrel of Diogenes brought forth the qualities of the great thinker.

  Emmanuel des Essarts

  Food, Cooking, Quality

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• The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties - he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Average, Trying

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (1993). “Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration for Each Day of the Year”, Touchstone

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• By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified. Today the greatest divide within humanity is not between races, or religions, or even, as is widely believed, between the literate and illiterate. It is the chasm that separates scientific from prescientific cultures.

  E. O. Wilson

  Race, Achievement, Humanity

  E. O. Wilson (2014). “Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge”, p.72, Vintage

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• It is not the thinker who is the true king of men, as we sometimes hear it proudly said. We need one who will not only show, but be the Truth; who will not only point, but open and be the Way; who will not only communicate thought, but give, because He is the Life. Not the rabbi's pulpit, nor the teacher's desk, still less the gilded chairs of earthly monarchs, least of all the' tents of conquerors, are the throne of the true king. He rules from the cross.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Teacher, Kings, Men

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 78), 1895.

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• The thinker requires exactly the same light as the painter, clear, without direct sunshine, or blinding reflection, and, where possible, from above.

  August Wilhelm von Schlegel

  Sunshine, Reflection, Light

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• A thinker is a person.

  Joseph Cook

  Persons

  Joseph Cook (1879). “Transcendentalism, with Preludes on Current Events”

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• The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs but goes right to work on the creative how.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Time, Attitude

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2013). “You Can If You Think You Can”, p.310, Simon and Schuster

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• A lot of great thinkers- like Einstein and Newton- come up with their best ideas when they're young because they don't yet think in the way that the establishment teaches them. Sometimes your lack of knowledge frees your mind to be creative and think in a different way. But you still have to be logical and figure out a practical way to get things done, even though you're looking at things differently.

  George Lucas

  Thinking, Ideas, Creative

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• Always the idea of unbroken quiet broods around the grave. It is a port where the storms of life never beat, and the forms that have been tossed on its chafing waves lie quiet forevermore. There the child nestles as peacefully as ever it lay in its mother's arms, and the workman's hands lie still by his side, and the thinker's brain is pillowed in silent mystery, and the poor girl's broken heart is steeped in a balm that extracts its secret woe, and is in the keeping of a charity that covers all blame.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Girl, Mother, Children

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• The positive thinker, on the contrary, constantly sends out positive thoughts, together with vital mental images of hope, optimism and creativity. He therefore activates the world around him positively and strongly tends to draw back to himself positive results. This, too, is a basic law of mind action.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Positive, Creativity, Law

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Positive Principle Today”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• By cultivating an interest in a few good books which contain the result of the toil or the quintessence of the genius of some of the most gifted thinkers of the world, we need not live on the marsh and in the mists. The slopes and ridges invite us.

  Thomas Starr King

  Book, Toil, Needs

  Thomas Starr King (1880). “Christianity and Humanity ...: Ed., with a Memoir”

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• Any positive thinker is compelled to see everything in the light of his own convictions.

  Antoinette Brown Blackwell

  Light, Principles, Belief

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