Thinker Quotes · Page 8

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Any positive thinker is compelled to see everything in the light of his own convictions.

— Antoinette Brown Blackwell

I spent 22 years in the United States military, so I'm a pretty strategic level thinker.

— Allen West

Some of the most patriarchal thinkers I know are women. Some of the most feminist thinkers are men.

— Marianne Williamson

Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers.

— John Stuart Mill

All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.

— John C. Maxwell

I think that if you're a digital thinker, you can use a digital camera.

— Abbas Kiarostami

Conclusion: better to be a thinking monk than a postmodern thinker.

— Muriel Barbery

Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological…

— Wilhelm Dilthey

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We criticize a thinker more acutely when he advances a proposition that is disagreeable to us; and yet it would be more…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“A thinker cannot do other than convert his physical condition into the most highly intellectual of forms –this act of transformation is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I have used the philosophers' ideas for my own private literary purposes, but I don't think that I'm a thinker. I suppose…

— Jorge Luis Borges

The Internet has become an integral part of everyday life precisely because it has been an open-to-all land of opportunity where entrepreneurs,…

— Ron Wyden

Every morning you have a choice. Are you going to be a positive thinker or a negative thinker? Positive thinking will energize…

— Jon Gordon

Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I think our literary tradition has to evolve, has to explore its form and its spirit through writers and thinkers, rather than…

— Xiaolu Guo

Great thinkers think inductively, that is, they create solution and then seek out the problems that solution might solve; most companies think…

— Joey Reiman

You cannot be a conscious Christian without St. Paul. He translated the teachings of Christ into a doctrinal structure that, even with…

— Pope Francis

I am too inquisitive, too skeptical, too arrogant, to let myself be satisfied with an obvious and crass solution of things. God…

— Anonymous

When you recognize that there is a voice in your head that pretends to be you and never stops speaking, you are…

— Eckhart Tolle

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

— Thomas Nagel

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

I'm bad at doing what I'm told. I'm a born free thinker.

— Christopher Monckton

[James Mattis] is a student of history. He's a strategic thinker.

— Michele Flournoy

The thinker as reader reads what has been written. He wears the words he reads to look upon Within his being.

— Wallace Stevens

Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers... that is a small population.

— Alan Lightman

You label somebody 'New Age,' and that's automatic mockery: 'She cannot possibly be a serious thinker.'

— Marianne Williamson

If you are a thinker, you will change the language. You will not use words the way others do.

— Gertrude Stein

Kierkegaard was by far the most profound thinker of the last century. Kierkegaard was a saint.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril.

— John Dewey

You need good thinkers around you. Without them, you will go broke.

— Adolf Dassler

For most of my life, I was a worrier and an over-thinker. I had pretty bad social anxiety.

— Rob Corddry

Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.

— Robert Greene

I am a positive thinker. You have to have this positive energy to get somewhere.

— Philip Green

Joe Biden is a backwards thinker in a world craving forward-looking leadership.

— Daniel Cameron

You don't hurry a thinker, and you don't talk to him when he's thinking. It's just inconsiderate.

— Christopher Moore

We are not taught to be thinkers, but reflectors of our culture. Let's teach our children to be thinkers.

— Jacque Fresco