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“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 restaurants 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.
Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers.”
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Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers.”
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“And if they thought her aimless, if they thought her a bit mad, let them. It meant they left her alone. Marya was not aimless, anyway. She was thinking.”
― Deathless
― Deathless
“Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.”
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“He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.”
― Letters of Anton Chekhov
― Letters of Anton Chekhov
“A person who is truly cool is a work of art. And remember, original works of art cost exponentially higher than imitations. Just take a look at the the coolest people in history. They will always be a part of history for being extremely original individuals, not imitations.”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Assumptions are quick exits for lazy minds that like to graze out in the fields without bother.”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Originals cost more than imitations.”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Nothing complements a fast mind better than a slow tongue. And nothing aggravates a slow mind better than a fast tongue.”
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“When I quit my university, people in my neighborhood quite literally began to gossip about me being insane, while others pitied me as a lost soul. But mark this my friend, it's the lost souls that lay the foundation for a better tomorrow, because those beings are not afraid to be lost, they are not afraid to fail, in the pursuit of something greater, something grander, than to just survive no different than the dogs do on the streets.”
― Time to Save Medicine
― Time to Save Medicine
“A great thinker does not necessary have to discover a master idea but has to rediscover and to affirm a true but forgotten, ignored or misunderstood master idea and interpret it in all the diverse aspect of thought not previously done, in a powerful and consistent way, despite surrounding ignorance and opposition.”
― Knowledge, Language, Thought and The Civilization of Islam: Essays in Honor of Syed Muhammad Naquib al–Attas
― Knowledge, Language, Thought and The Civilization of Islam: Essays in Honor of Syed Muhammad Naquib al–Attas
“As a man who dances like a bronze statue, in the style of Rodin's The Thinker, I know a thing or two about choreography. OK, maybe just a thing, and that thing is this: The dancers in The Anthems of Rock can move—and they’re a big reason the audience was so moved with each song.”
― A Memoir of Memories and Memes
― A Memoir of Memories and Memes
“Although it is true that this counterthought attests to an absolute solitude, it is an extremely populous solitude, like the desert itself, a solitude already intertwined with a people to come, one that invokes and awaits that people, existing only through it, though it is not yet here.”
Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, translated by Brian Massumi, University of Minnesota Press, 1987, p. 377.”
― Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, translated by Brian Massumi, University of Minnesota Press, 1987, p. 377.”
― Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
“রাষ্ট্রে, ধর্মে, সমাজে, তাঁর জীবৎকালে যত আন্দোলন এ-দেশে জেগে উঠেছিলো, তার প্রায় প্রত্যেকটিতে সাড়া দিয়েছিলেন রবীন্দ্রনাথ, তাকে ফলিয়ে তুলেছিলেন সাহিত্যে, কখনো-কখনো প্রত্যক্ষভাবেও অংশ নিয়েছিলেন ; কিন্তু কদাচ কোনো সংঘভুক্ত হননি, কোনো পুরোহিতের আনুগত্য স্বীকার করেননি, তাঁকে বাঁধতে পারে এমন বাঁধন কারো হাতেই তৈরি হলো না।
("শিল্পীর স্বাধীনতা" প্রবন্ধের অংশ)”
― সাহিত্যচর্চা
("শিল্পীর স্বাধীনতা" প্রবন্ধের অংশ)”
― সাহিত্যচর্চা
“A majority of people follow the herd because they find it difficult to veer into the lane that would require their mind to get to work.”
― Night of a Thousand Thoughts
― Night of a Thousand Thoughts
“If you are a deep thinker, your aim should not be to be appreciated for deep thinking but rather to evoke others to think too.”
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“Thinking is a strange process. Just because we are thinking, we assume there exists an entity generating those thoughts. But there is no thinker behind those thoughts. The thinker is an illusion created by thoughts.”
― FLOWERS OF STARDUST
― FLOWERS OF STARDUST
“The shadow of my past, the life I choose to forget has not, will never, ever, forget me”
― Restore Me
― Restore Me
“It takes only a moment to awaken you. It can bring out the thinker in you, altering your whole life.”
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“La contemplación de auténticas obras de arte, y más aún la belleza del mundo, e, incluso mucho más aún, la contemplación del bien desconocido al que aspiramos, puede afirmarnos en el esfuerzo de pensar continuamente acerca del orden humano que debe ser nuestro primer objeto de atención.”
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“It’s just that . . . well, I like the night. And it’s a good place to hide.”
“Hide? From what?”
Stella inched away, making a face. “I come out here to practice, Mama. I’ve got stuff in my head, but I don’t know how to get it out. I try to write it down some“times, but I’m not very good at it. It’s like my brains are dumplings in somebody else’s soup.” She looked up toward the stars, but even the sky had turned murky.
Her mother hugged her closer. “I’ve talked to Gertrude Grayson a time or two,” she said gently.
Stella stiffened. Betrayed!
“She says you are the best thinker in the school.”
― Stella by Starlight
“Hide? From what?”
Stella inched away, making a face. “I come out here to practice, Mama. I’ve got stuff in my head, but I don’t know how to get it out. I try to write it down some“times, but I’m not very good at it. It’s like my brains are dumplings in somebody else’s soup.” She looked up toward the stars, but even the sky had turned murky.
Her mother hugged her closer. “I’ve talked to Gertrude Grayson a time or two,” she said gently.
Stella stiffened. Betrayed!
“She says you are the best thinker in the school.”
― Stella by Starlight
“Being in a group is fun, but embrace solitude if you want to achieve something.”
― The Other Wife: A Novel in Verse
― The Other Wife: A Novel in Verse
“Whatever I speak is science,
Whatever I pen is poetry.
Whatever I think is philosophy,
Whatever I sense is psychology.”
― Rowdy Buddha: The First Sapiens
Whatever I pen is poetry.
Whatever I think is philosophy,
Whatever I sense is psychology.”
― Rowdy Buddha: The First Sapiens
“The Big Bang could be the ‘first breath’ of divine consciousness unfolding into time and matter.”
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“And yet, oh, how the shadows shift upon the past, depending on the light of the present.”
― The Fallen & the Kiss of Dusk
― The Fallen & the Kiss of Dusk
“The fast thinker wins the day; the slow thinker shapes the decade.”
― The Calm Within the Storm: Leading Beyond Ego
― The Calm Within the Storm: Leading Beyond Ego
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