#thinkers

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

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

There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#everywhere #lot #thinkers

There is no place on earth or on the universe that a tree cannot turn a place into a more beautiful site! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#beauty

Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy? ↗

— Bell Hooks

#color #columbus #contemporary #dimensions #especially

Slow thinkers are part of the game too. Some of these slow thinkers can hit a ball a long way. ↗

— Alvin Dark

#game #hit #long #long way #part

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

A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses. ↗

— Robert Musil

#average #contemporaries #deep #fine #geniuses

I would say that the directors that I've liked the most are all curious in nature - curious thinkers. They're all big questioners, I would say, first and foremost. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#curious #directors #first #foremost #i

Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true; they just hope to find out what reality is like. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#beforehand #bottom #certain #experience #find