creative and professional writing

Quotes & Thinkers in creative and professional writing

199 thinkers

Sort:

Notable Thinkers

40+ of 199

🇺🇸Ralph Waldo Emerson

Literature

Western philosophy

1803–1882

"He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses."

"What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul"

"The world is a fine place. The only thing wrong with it is us. How little justice and humility there is in us, how poorly we understand patriotism!"

"Out of love, God becomes man. He says: "See, here is what it is to be a human being."

231 quotes

🇺🇸Thomas Mann

Literature

"The beautiful word begets the beautiful deed."

127 quotes

🇨🇴Gabriel García Márquez

Literature

magic realism

1927–2014

"But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love."

"P.S. Managed to avoid the hoyden Emily Thompkinson, who has purloined my creation and added things of her own. Nefarious Creature!"

"Ah, my friend, one may live in a big house and yet have no comfort."

177 quotes

🇨🇭Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

Law

b. 1947

"We don’t want a dystopian future in which corporations and not democratically elected governments call the shots. We don’t want an international order akin to post-democracy or post-law."

"Oh, Christ their disease had reached out and claimed him too. He had been subverted by the contagion of the lawless; he had been defeated by that which he had sought to destroy."

"The instruction booklet for Stargate, a contemporary symbolic game relating to consciousness, opens: The turning about is upon us, the turning of mind, the expansion of eyes... the light that shapes from within."

"Freddie Aguilar, who's billed as "the Bob Dylan of the Philippines." This is unfair, since he's good-looking, plays the guitar well, can carry a tune, and writes songs that make sense."

"One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful."

35 quotes

🇺🇸John Kenneth Galbraith

Politics

Keynesian economics

1908–2006

"Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects."

"Creative Endeavour lost her wings, Mrs. Ape."

"The world's a puzzle; no need to make sense out of it." - Socrates"

"You don't dwell on what you've lost, you just move on."-Allison"

"Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything."

"Someone said that Capitalism will eat itself, and I think that’s like the meat industry, the meat industry itself will become dead meat and compassion will reign supreme."

"Your Value Doesn't Decrease Based On Someone's Inability To See Your Worth."

"Actually the action called a kiss represented nothing more for me than some place where my spirit could seek shelter."

30 quotes

🇫🇷Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Literature

1900–1944

"That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man."

"Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to somebody else."

68 quotes

🇷🇺Svetlana Alexievich

Literature

literary realism

b. 1948

"Death is the fairest thing in the world. No one's ever gotten out of it. The earth takes everyone—the kind, the cruel, the sinners. Aside from that, there's no fairness on earth."

"Haste in every business brings failures."

"Hell is not a place, it's a state of mind and body; hell is obsession with a voice, a face, a name."

"I have more information in one place than anybody in the world."

"They Never Wanted To Be Themselves , New York Times, May 24, 1987"

"I've been invited back to speak at my old high school, Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys, which once upon a time expelled me for absolutely outrageous behavior . The moral of the story is: success trumps everything!"

"You were a summer gift, one I'll always treasure. You were a dream I never wanted to wake up from. You opened my eyes to things I'll never really see. You're the best thing that will ever happen to me."

"One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods."

"It wasn’t what was done to you. Life was what you did with what was done to you."

9 quotes

🇳🇴Thomas Hylland Eriksen

Politics

1962–2024

"One reason for the increased interest in studies of identity in anthropology may be the fact that issues to do with the nature of groups have become hugely important in politics worldwide in the last decades."