#thinker

I'm not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#doing #fast #i #i am #interested

It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#every #greatest #mankind #modern #morality

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker. ↗

— David Hume

#design #even #everywhere #intention #most

the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#inspirational #mad #inspirational

The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

#original #original sin #poet #sin #thinker

Most political journalists come to Washington because they're snappy writers, big thinkers, or news breakers. Me? My ticket to the big leagues had little to do with talent. It was mostly about the governor I was covering, Bill Clinton. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#because #big #big leagues #bill #bill clinton

I really am a thinker. I don't do things rash. I know some of the things I've said or the way I act seem rash. But I do take ownership of it. I don't say things I don't mean. ↗

— Bode Miller

#am #i #i do #know #mean

I'm bad at doing what I'm told. I'm a born free thinker. ↗

— Christopher Monckton

#born #doing #free #i #thinker

It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism. ↗

— Norman Tebbit

#certainly #death #intellectuals #movement #political

I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#been #black #brainwashed #completely #deep