#thinker

Educate the children in your country well, and then sit and watch the rise of your country like a Sun on the horizon! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#education

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habits; thought is anarchic and lawless, indifferent to authority, careless of the well-tried wisdom of the ages. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid ... Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#defiance #fearlessness #free-thinker #freedom #freedom-of-thought

Be aware of this truth that the people on this earth could be joyous, if only they would live rationally and if they would contribute mutually to each others' welfare. This world is not a vale of sorrows if you will recognize discriminatingly what is truly excellent in it; and if you will avail yourself of it for mutual happiness and well-being. Therefore, let us explain as often as possible, and particularly at the departure of life, that we base our faith on firm foundations, on Truth for putting into action our ideas which do not depend on fables and ideas which Science has long ago proven to be false. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#clemens-vonnegut #freethinker #funeral #science #skeptic

I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous man, the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the man in love with love, always in search of the absolute, always seeking the unattainable ↗

— Henry Miller

#beatnik #free-thinker #love

Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths. ↗

— Criss Jami

#concealment #confusion #contemplation #dishonesty #hardcore

Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas. ↗

— Carl L. Becker

#politics #the-world #thinkers #political-philosophy

Marxists have some way of analyzing the development of affairs which enables them to judge far in advance of scientific thinkers what the trend of social and economic development is to be. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#affairs #analyzing #development #economic #economic development

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

#average intelligence #car #driven #highly #intelligence

I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don't acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#any #being #danger #dependent #i

Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#rare #readers #thinkers