Thinker Quotes · Page 5

To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.

— Ayn Rand

“The average adult has had sex innumerable times more than they have formed an opinion of their own.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Sometimes you need to move away before you can see where you are”

— Benny Bellamacina

“An enlightened thinker does not waste his precious time thinking about what others think of what he thinks.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I want to show people it's not elitist to be a deep thinker.

— Sasha Velour

Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.

— Dmitri Shostakovich

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

— E. O. Wilson

The doer and the thinker, no allowances for the other, as the failing light illuminates the mercenaries creed.

— Jethro Tull

The market does not drive the scientists, the communicators, the thinkers, the government to do the right things.

— Bill Gates

The Founding Fathers were neither passive, death-worshipin g mystics nor mindless, power-seeking looters; as a political group they were a phenomenon unprecedented…

— Ayn Rand

This year has begun hopefully for right thinkers. After all these centuries of feudal barbarism and political slavery, it is surprising to…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

To base the unexplainabilty and the immense wonder of nature onto an other miracle, God, is unnecessary and not acceptable for any…

— Fritz Zwicky

Fifty years is the long time to think about a thinker's relevance or to think of the relevance of their work to…

— Nigel Gibson

The dolphins and whales have a brain that is actually bigger in proportion to their size than we do. They are very…

— Owsley Stanley

The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the…

— Sri Aurobindo

I'm not a writer because I want to make money. I'm a writer because I'm a very slow thinker, but I do…

— Gregory Maguire

What we take ourselves to be doing when we think about what is the case or how we should act is something…

— Thomas Nagel

“I am pain stricken to say that, various “educational” institutions have adopted the medieval doctrine "fear of the lord is the beginning…

— Abhijit Naskar

Our understanding of the thought of the past is liable to be the more adequate, the less the historian is convinced of…

— Leo Strauss

I believe that the time given to refutation in philosophy is usually time lost. Of the many attacks directed by many thinkers…

— Henri Bergson

A different conception of society, very different from that which now prevails, is in process of formation. Under the name of Anarchy,…

— Peter Kropotkin

Just as the line of astronomical thinkers from Copernicus to Newton had destroyed the old astronomy, in which the earth was the…

— Andrew Dickson White

We don't need no more rappers, we don't need no more basketball players, no more football players. We need more thinkers. We…

— Tupac Shakur

The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. They make shift to live merely…

— Henry David Thoreau

The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.

— Edward de Bono

A low thinker may talk when they take it in while the stong minded can simply walk while they breathe it in

— Heritier Ndele

To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.

— William James

Thinkers, makers and traders are the DNA of the world class company

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

The thinker is going to find a way to put clothes on his back.

— Marlon Cortez Stanfield

Some people are destined to be deep thinkers. I am not one of those people.

— Jen Lancaster

Hesitancy in judgment is the only true mark of the thinker.

— Dagobert D. Runes

It is the hardest thing in the world to be a good thinker without being a good self examiner.

— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

Clearly, Enlightenment thinkers were seeking a God substitute.

— Nancy Pearcey

First, he must hold rational values, and to do this he must be a thinker.

— Andrew Bernstein

The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.

— Henry David Thoreau

Man is a slow, sloppy and brilliant thinker; the machine is fast, accurate and stupid.

— William Moore Kelly

I was a romantic, messy thinker. I was raised with very conservative beliefs, but that was a long time ago.

— Julia Child

Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial.

— George Will

Independent thinkers are usually geniuses or idiots and at times it's hard to tell which.

— James Cook