#thinkers

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

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 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

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

Now that you're an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of a good book. Or maybe you like to eat alone in restaurans and could do without the pitying looks from fellow diners. Or you're told that you're "in your head too much", a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Of course, there's another word for such people: thinkers. ↗

— Susan Cain

#thinkers #introvert

Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#am #happy #hegel #i #i am

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

— Edgar R. Fiedler

#among #herd #independent #instinct #like

Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By nature we are laconic speakers and by conviction we are realistic thinkers. ↗

— Julia Gillard

#conviction #given #know #nature #overstatement

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#any #enlightenment #faith #justified #measure

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