#thinker

Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#professors #thinkers #write #writers

I'm not a great deductive thinker, but I will admit to having competence in a very wide range of things - not being afraid to try to write about baseball, choral music and dinosaurs in the same week and see connections among them. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#admit #afraid #among #baseball #being

Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes is the one I feel most affinity for, and Michel Foucault, well, his writing influenced my novel, 'Middlesex.' ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#both #contributions #criticism #feel #his

I spent 22 years in the United States military, so I'm a pretty strategic level thinker. ↗

— Allen West

#level #military #pretty #spent #states

Certainly the research shows that grateful people are more innovative thinkers. ↗

— Deborah Norville

#grateful #innovative #more #people #research

We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers. ↗

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

#each #other #reality #shaped #thinkers

Wise thinkers prevail everywhere. ↗

— Sophocles

#prevail #thinkers #wise

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners. ↗

— Albert Camus

#death #execution #intelligence #scholars #thinkers

We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep and conformists. ↗

— Bill Maher

#country #free #more #more people #need

It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#american tradition #belongs #brown #europe #i