#thinker

Tom DeLay fears independent thinkers and fighters. I am both. ↗

— Martin Frost

#both #delay #fears #fighters #i

Learning to think rigorously, so as to act rightly and to serve humanity better. ↗

— John Paul II

#thinker #theology

Darwin did not know what a bitter satire he wrote on mankind ... when he showed that free competition, the struggle for existence, which the economists celebrate as the highest historical achievement, is the normal state of the animal kingdom. Only conscious organization of social production, in which production and distribution are carried on in a planned way, can lift mankind above the rest of the animal. ↗

— Friedrick Engels

#democracy #engelism #free-thinker #free-thought #freedom

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds ↗

— Albert Einstein

#perception #thinkers #life

When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#american culture #appreciation #artists #athletes #community

I am a very bottom-up thinker. ↗

— Ken Thompson

#bottom-up #i #i am #thinker #very

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers. ↗

— Edgar R. Fiedler

#among #herd #independent #instinct #like

Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological movements of their day. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#brought #changes #day #dominant #hands

For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker. ↗

— Gregg Easterbrook

#bad #controversy #criticized #deserved #felt

Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#professors #thinkers #write #writers