Thinker Quotes · Page 13

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

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

— Christopher Moore

I think I've done a good job in the industry from the standpoint of employee morale and customer satisfaction, and as an…

— David Duffield

To the thinker, the most trifling external object often suggests ideas, which, like Homer's chain, extend, link after link, from earth to…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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

— Jacque Fresco

I'm admittedly a record guy. Singles and I are a different beast. I'm definitely an overall picture thinker.

— David Cook

Are you a thinker, a doer, or a clutch player? The better you are, the greater potential for influence you will have…

— John C. Maxwell

The art of thinking is the greatest art of all, for 'as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.' The…

— Wilferd Peterson

I choose joy... I will invite my God to be the God of circumstance. I will refuse the temptation to be cynical...…

— Max Lucado

[ Jonathan] Edwards is the person who really made theological determinism a serious option for Reformed thinkers, and the influence his views…

— Oliver D. Crisp

And when you look at the twentieth-century experiment with collectivism-that Ayn Rand, more than anybody else, did such a good job of…

— Paul Ryan

The greatest thinkers in history certainly knew the value of shifting the mind into low gear. Charles Darwin described himself as a…

— Carl Honore

I'm a visual thinker, so I think of everything visually, first. A lot of what an issue will become for me starts…

— Gerard Way

Men of learning are those who have read the contents of books. Thinkers, geniuses, and those who have enlightened the world and…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I don't believe that we are what we do although many thinkers argue otherwise. I believe that what we do is, very…

— Donald Barthelme

We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall,…

— Hermann Hesse

I have a bad rote memory, but I tend to learn through my experiences. And then when I went into the markets,…

— Ray Dalio

As to how I would guide someone who is confused about the idea of God, I would suggest that he or she…

— Jacob Needleman

When watching men of power in action it must be always kept in mind that, whether they know it or not, their…

— Eric Hoffer

The question of good and evil will always be one of philosophy's most intriguing problems, up there with the problem of existence…

— Anonymous

I think that a true economics thinker or a Marxist thinker would make nonsense of my argument, although I have given massive…

— Marina Warner

People with eating disorders tend to be very diametrical thinkers – everything is the end of the world, everything rides on this…

— Marya Hornbacher

“Books are supposed to give a helping hand to humanity’s progress, not to instruct humanity how to progress. Plato wrote his books…

— Abhijit Naskar

On the heights it is warmer than people in the valley suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots

— Douglas Adams

Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

— Voltaire

We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers.

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep and conformists.

— Bill Maher

The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I think that my work is easy to understand because I am not a thinker, I am not a... How can I…

— Sharon Olds

I wouldn't say I'm a very original thinker, but if I have a good experience with something, I'll want to take it…

— Gwyneth Paltrow

“I don’t even pretend to believe I know everything; I just believe in arguments God told me I had a pretty good…

— Shannon L. Alder

When obstacles or difficulties arise, the positive thinker takes them as creative opportunities.

— Norman Vincent Peale

“A scientific fact has no value to me unless it can be implemented to improve human condition.”

— Abhijit Naskar

The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker can feel himself lonely, most positively furthered,…

— William James

The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would…

— Paul Ryan

“Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Behind the October Revolution there are more influential personalities than the thinkers and executors of Marxism.

— Vladimir Lenin