Thinker Quotes - Page 12

• This year has begun hopefully for right thinkers. After all these centuries of feudal barbarism and political slavery, it is surprising to see how the word of 'liberty' sets minds on fire.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Fire, Years, Political

  Napoleon Bonaparte (2010). “The Corsican: The Virtual Diary of Napoleon Bonaparte”, p.4, Fireship Press

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• There are those, of course, who deny that they need any form of authority. They are the popular atheists and agnostics. Such men say that they must be shown by 'reason' whatever they are to accept as true. But the great thinkers among non-Christian men have taken no such position. They know that they cannot cover the whole area of reality with their knowledge.

  Cornelius Van Til

  Christian, Atheist, Taken

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• A politician or political thinker who calls himself a political realist is usually boasting that he sees politics, so to speak, in the raw; he is generally a proclaimed cynic and pessimist who makes it his business to look behind words and fine speeches for the motive. This motive is always low.

  Mary McCarthy

  Political, Looks, Speech

  Mary McCarthy (1964). “The humanist in the bathtub”

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• God secludes Himself; but the thinker listens at the door.

  Victor Hugo

  God, Thoughtful, Thinking

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• I studied a lot of animal behavior and one of the things I find really interesting is the whole idea that animals are sensory based thinkers and I wrote about this in my book, Animals in Translation. That an animal's memory is not in words, they've got to be in pictures - it's very detailed so let's say the animal gets afraid of something - they'll get afraid of something that they're looking at or hearing, the moment the bad thing happens.

  Temple Grandin

  Memories, Book, Animal

  Source: www.floppycats.com

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• In the twentieth century the Reformed tradition was developed in several ways including additional confessions (Barmen, the Belhar Confession, the 1967 Confession of the PC(USA), and so on). It was also significantly augmented by the work of important thinkers like Karl Barth, T. F. Torrance, Jürgen Moltmann, Emil Brunner, Kathryn Tanner, and so on.

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Usa, Important, Way

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

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• [James Mattis] is a student of history. He's a strategic thinker.

  Michele Flournoy

  Students, Strategic

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The dolphins and whales have a brain that is actually bigger in proportion to their size than we do. They are very complex. They are thinkers.

  Owsley Stanley

  Whales, Brain, Dolphins

  Source: medium.com

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• We wouldn't be successful if we didn't have independent thinkers who can argue and then resolve their arguments.

  Ray Dalio

  Independent, Successful, Arguing

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• That tendency of social thought to generalize, to describe a leading tendency in a society in such a way that it seems that everything falls within its iron laws, is very common. Of course our own experience tells us that life is not as monochrome as these thinkers depict it. On the other hand they are very valuable because they alert us to transformations we are likely to take for granted.

  Susan Sontag

  Fall, Hands, Law

  Source: ctheory.net

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• [Our system of education ]not designed to create critical thinkers.

  Edward Snowden

  Critical

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• Every revolutionary thinker in America, White, Black, Brown or Red, never got the true representation from the corporate-controlled media.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Media, White, America

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• I think it's very desirable to be an individual and a free thinker.

  Paul Newman

  Thinking, Individual, Desirable

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• Autism is a big continuum, going from someone who remains nonverbal, all the way up to geniuses on Silicon Valley. And some kids are visual thinkers like me. Other kids are pattern thinkers - your mathematicians, your programmers. And there are others, they are word thinkers. Uneven skills. You need to take the thing that they're good at and you need to work on developing it.

  Temple Grandin

  Kids, Skills, Autism

  Source: www.kshb.com

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• I think it's a real shame so many schools have taken out the hands-on classes. Art, music, auto mechanics, cooking, sewing, these are all things that can turn into jobs. You know, wood shop, steel shop, welding. These are all things that can turn into great careers, get kids interested. Things they can do with other students. Other things for our word thinkers: journalism clubs, drama clubs.

  Temple Grandin

  Art, Jobs, Drama

  Source: www.kshb.com

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• Be yourself. Hillary Clinton, you have a great vision for our country. You know the policy, you have good judgment that springs from that. You're a strategic thinker, and you have a connection with the American people that springs from a lifetime of service and leadership to them, to America's working families. So, just go talk about that. Forget the script, forget everything else. Just be Hillary Clinton. Be yourself.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Country, Being Yourself, Spring

  Source: www.politico.com

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• From the outset, when [Ho Chi Minh] became a member of the French Communist Party in 1920, he was an independent thinker who adjusted Marxist-Leninist ideas and tactics to what he perceived to be the concrete situation in Indochina.

  William J. Duiker

  Party, Independent, Ideas

  Source: www.sonshi.com

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• This rationale, which justified the mixed constitution of Great Britain, might have made some sense in 1776, but by 1787 most American thinkers had come to believe that all parts of their balanced governments represented in one way or another the sovereign people. They had left the Aristotelian idea of mixed estates - monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy - way behind. [John] Adams had not, and his stubbornness on this point caused him no end of trouble.

  Gordon S. Wood

  Believe, Government, Ideas

  Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

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• I was never a "big thinker". One of my philosophies in Linux has always been to not worry about the future too much, but make sure that we make the best of what we have now - together with keeping our options open for the future and not digging us into a hole.

  Linus Torvalds

  Philosophy, Worry, Together

  Source: www.osnews.com

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• [John] Calvin is revered as a thinker of immense importance in Reformed thought, Jonathan Edwards could say in his preface to his treatise on Freedom of the Will that he had derived none of his views from the work of Calvin, though he was willing to be called a "Calvinist" for the sake of convention.

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Views, Sake, Conventions

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

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• For instance, there are many mainstream Reformed theologians that deny the doctrine of "limited" atonement (the "L" in TULIP, the acrostic for the Five Points of Calvinism). These are not thinkers on the margins or troublemakers. They are leaders at the center of Reformed thinking like Bishop John Davenant.

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Thinking, Leader, Doctrine

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

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• [Osip] Mandelstam, who wasn't a political thinker, loved the idea of the city-state. One of the emblems in his poetry of the politics he imagined, over and against the universalizing politics of [Carl] Marx, was the medieval city of Novgorod, which had in its center a public well where the water was free to everyone. That became for him a figure of justice.

  Robert Hass

  Cities, Ideas, Justice

  "Robert Hass" by Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April 1997.

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• I've always been a curious thinker. And now, as an adult, I can articulate it.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Adults, Curious, I Can

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I think that James Baldwin is, for sure, one of the most important American writer/thinkers of his time... not just African-American. He singled-handily revolutionized the political, artistic and historical discourses about America. He created his particular and original language.

  Raoul Peck

  Thinking, America, Political

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• I was not a public - I was not a thinker. I was a doer.

  Bill Moyers

  Doers

  "Bill Moyers on His Legendary Journalism Career: 'Democracy Should Be a Brake on Unbridled Greed and Power'". Interview with Amy Goodman, June 8, 2011.

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