Karl Marx
Philosopher, Economist
"When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood."
Kendrick Lamar
Rapper, Songwriter
"I aint a drinker Im a thinker, call it what you want"
Martin Heidegger
Philosopher
"The small are always dependent on the great; they are "small" precisely because they think they are independent. The great thinker is one who can hear what is greatest in the work of other "greats" and who can transform it in an original manner."
Sri Aurobindo
Philosopher, Poet, Politician
"The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought."
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"Every great thinker is someone else's moron."
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"Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself."
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"The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future."
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"Exceptional thinkers ignore their critics and go about their business making history."
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"Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience."
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"I am a very bottom-up thinker."
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"I'm not my thoughts, I'm the thinker who has those thoughts."
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"You can be a business thinker."
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"I wouldn't say I was a born writer; I'm a born thinker."
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"I'm a thinker not a talker."
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"Wise thinkers prevail everywhere."
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"There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man."
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"Is there a thinker apart from thought?"
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"Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers."
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"The mark of the superior thinker is his or her ability to accurately predict the consequences of doing or not doing something."
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"They can ta'k our lives but they can never ta'k our freedom!' Now there's a battle cry not designed by a clear thinker"
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"The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly."
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"True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery."
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"I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated."
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"The vertical thinker says: 'I know what I am looking for.' The lateral thinker says: 'I am looking but I won't know what I am looking for until I have found it.'"
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