#thinker

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

Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#rare #readers #thinkers

Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#allows #bring #continuity #experience #first-person

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of "crackpot" than the stigma of conformity. ↗

— Thomas John Watson, Sr.

#controversy #crackpot #danger #expose #fear

I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker. ↗

— Keenen Ivory Wayans

#funny #have fun #i #like #more

Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there. ↗

— Venus Williams

#course #even #go #good #lose

I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#beginning #book #end #hundreds #i

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