Thinker Quotes · Page 9

Jesus Christ to me, is probably the most compassionate and revolutionary thinker of all time.

— Scott Fujita

All things are at odds when God sets a thinker loose on the planet

— Edith Hamilton

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers..

— Edgar Fiedler

Be an independent thinker at all times, and ignore anyone who attempts to define you in a limiting way.

— Sherry Argov

Remember, every great leader (or visionary or brave thinker) was initially laughed at. Now they are revered.

— Robin Sharma

Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation.

— Emile M. Cioran

“Assumptions are quick exits for lazy minds that like to graze out in the fields without bother.”

— Suzy Kassem

When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.

— Karl Marx

I just know that I'm innovative. I'm a quick thinker... In Washington, I just want to be a senator who finds a…

— Cory Booker

I think the UN's role - especially since it's not an extremely rich fund, and that's to put it mildly - is…

— Amartya Sen

But the disappearance of the effort to let go is precisely the disappearance of the separate thinker, of the ego trying to…

— Alan Watts

It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist…

— Anonymous

Thinkers aren't limited by what they know, because they can always increase what they know. Rather they're limited by what puzzles them,…

— Daniel Quinn

Never think negatively, for the negative thinker does a very dangerous thing. He pumps out negative thoughts into the world around him…

— Norman Vincent Peale

The thinker requires exactly the same light as the painter, clear, without direct sunshine, or blinding reflection, and, where possible, from above.

— August Wilhelm von Schlegel

You say: "I'm a blue sky thinker." Investor thinks: "You have no business model, and you don't know how to ship."

— Guy Kawasaki

It has long been believed that a man who gets bald across the front of his head is a thinker while a…

— L. M. Boyd

My political philosophy as a libertarian says that government has no business intervening in any consensual private behavior. My professional ethic as…

— Camille Paglia

Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the…

— Bill Viola

To paraphrase the late management thinker and writer, Peter Drucker, thinking is hard work, which is why so few people (including actually…

— Jeffrey Pfeffer

I want it so that every minister will be not a parrot, not an owl sitting upon a dead limb of the…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like…

— Anonymous

People who are unable to use their hands skillfully for all kinds of work, will not become good thinkers and will behave…

— Rudolf Steiner

Thinking should be like musical meditation. Has any philosopher pursued a thought to its limits the way Bach or Beethoven develop and…

— Emile M. Cioran

I'm a big thinker, and sometimes I think too much, and my brain can get in the way of myself.

— Amanda Crew

[Our system of education ]not designed to create critical thinkers.

— Edward Snowden

A believer is not a thinker and a thinker is not a believer.

— Marian Noel Sherman

From Gadamer I learned that to understand a given thinker requires one to presuppose that he is right.

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.

— Bertrand Russell

Comedians are thinkers. The best ones are akin to philosophers, in my opinion.

— Ted Alexandro

True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery.

— Victor Hugo

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

— Douglas Adams

I'm an independent thinker and independent leader. I have been my whole life.

— J. B. Pritzker

Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.

— Emile M. Cioran

My mother was a very positive thinker; she was always active, always doing something good.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

“Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

God is the one great employer, thinker, planner, supervisor.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.

— Anonymous

I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals.

— Linus Torvalds

George Harrison was known as the quiet Beatle. Quiet people are often quiet because they are deep thinkers.

— Ray Comfort