Thinker Quotes · Page 5

Considering yourself selflessly selfish is a principle of all great thinkers

— Phil Collins

“I am simply the expression of Neuroscience itself.”

— Abhijit Naskar

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

I'm a thinker and feeler and dreamer and explorer.

— Alyson Stoner

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

— Michele Flournoy

I'm not a big thinker. The less thinking the better.

— Clayton Kershaw

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism.

— H. P. Lovecraft

It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker…

— Mary Henle

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

— Alan Watts

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

The benevolence of wrapping the partridge in a vine leaf brings out its quality, just as the barrel of Diogenes brought forth…

— Emmanuel des Essarts

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

— Ayn Rand

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By nature we are laconic…

— Julia Gillard

The underlying assumption that human nature is basically the same at all times, everywhere, and obeys eternal laws beyond human control, is…

— Isaiah Berlin

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

— Anonymous

An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

I'm a visual thinker, really bad at algebra. There's others that are a pattern thinker. These are the music and math minds.…

— Temple Grandin

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

The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality…

— Anthony Trollope

From the outset, when [Ho Chi Minh] became a member of the French Communist Party in 1920, he was an independent thinker…

— William J. Duiker

Thought is the creative power, or the impelling force which causes the creative power to act; thinking in a Certain Way will…

— Wallace D. Wattles

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

— Jeffrey Pfeffer

Webster never goes behind government, and so cannot speak with authority about it. His words are wisdom to those legislators who contemplate…

— Henry David Thoreau

The life of a thinking man will probably be divided into two parts -- the first in which he desires to exterminate…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Now that you're an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of…

— Susan Cain

His [Turgot's] first important literary and scholastic effort was a treatise On the Existence of God. Few fragments of it remain, but…

— Andrew Dickson White

When I grow bored, pick up the pen and begin thinking. Thinking and writing because it's chasing a dream, hoping to be…

— Raghib Clitso

Anarchy is a word that comes from the Greek, and signifies, strictly speaking, "without government": the state of a people without any…

— Errico Malatesta

Whenever a maker and a thinker get together, really cool stuff happens.

— Max McKeown

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

— Soren Kierkegaard

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

— Abbas Kiarostami

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

— Christopher Monckton

I'm a creative thinker, and that's helped me out tremendously growing up.

— Geno Smith

The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Thinkers do not accept the inevitable; they turn their efforts toward changing it.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

The talkers are rising above the thinkers.

— Barbara Kingsolver