Quotes About Thinker

It has been said that every individual is the conscious or unconscious follower of some influential philosopher.

The local-church thinker says, "We are building a great church." The kingdom thinker says, "We are taking the rule of Christ to the world.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

I'm very good in math, and I'm a logical thinker. I don't get wrapped up in things or even wrapped up in myself.

Emerson's fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.

The renowned biologist and thinker E. O. Wilson calls the study of gene-culture coevolution "one of the great unexplored domains of science.

pois é óbvio que, por mais que um pensador se preocupe com a eternidade, no instante em que se dispõe a escrever os seus pensamentos deixa de estar fundamentalmente preocupado com a eternidade e volta sua atenção para a tarefa de legar aos pósteros algum vestígio deles. p28

I always tell my students that Malcolm X came both to his spirituality and to his consciousness as a thinker when he had solitude to read. Unfortunately, tragically, like so many young black males, that solitude only came in prison.

The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.

Hegel's philosophy is very difficult—he is, I should say, the hardest to understand of all the great philosophers. Before entering on any detail, a general characterization may prove helpful.

As he left, I peered at Sarah Mapps and her mother, the way they grabbed hands and squeezed in relief, and then at Nina, at the small exultation on her face. She was braver than I, she always had been. I cared too much for the opinions of others, she cared not a whit. I was cautious, she was brash. I was a thinker, she was a doer. I kindled fires, she spread them. And right then and ever after, I saw how cunning the Fates had been. Nina was one wing, I was the other.

I'm an intellectual.

No pretendemos en ningún punto demostrar que nuestra lectura de Marx sea la única posible. Tal lectura «única posible» nunca existe con referencia a la obra de un pensador. Lo que sí hay son lecturas imposibles, o, para ser más exactos, presuntas lecturas que no son lecturas. En otras palabras: el conjunto de las lecturas posibles podrá ser «infinito», pero es todo lo contrario de indeterminado.

All power is indeed weak compared with that of the thinker. He sits upon the throne of his Empire of Thought, mightier far than they who wield material sceptres.

No woman has been a significant original thinker in any of the world's great philosophical traditions.

For the thinker the world is a thought; for the wit, an image; for the enthusiast, a dream; for the inquirer, truth.

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-handedly revolutionized the political, artistic, and historical discourses about America.

Lorenz was the charismatic, flamboyant thinker—he didn't conduct a single statistical analysis in his life—while Tinbergen did the nitty-gritty of actual data collection.

Joy was substance over optics," he said. "Joy was a long-term thinker. Joy was bold.

I do not think that G. H. Hardy was talking nonsense when he insisted that the mathematician was discovering rather than creating... The world for me is a necessary system, and in the degree to which the thinker can surrender his thought to that system and follow it, he is in a sense participating in that which is timeless or eternal.

Kendrick Lamar is a great, great thinker. He's a tremendous artist.

Be a thinker, be a dreamer, be a believer, be a doer, and, above all, be a kind lover.

To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.

The true Enlightenment thinker, the true rationalist, never wants to talk anyone into anything. No, he does not even want to convince; all the time he is aware that he may be wrong. Above all, he values the intellectual independence of others too highly to want to convince them in important matters. He would much rather invite contradiction, preferably in the form of rational and disciplined criticism. He seeks not to convince but to arouse — to challenge others to form free opinions.