Thinker Quotes · Page 6

Like all former thinkers, I'm writing a book.

— Lillian Hellman

“As a species, wise, harmonious progress is our mission.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Negative thinkers always have a negative vision.

— Zig Ziglar

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

— Edgar Fiedler

Why should thinkers mock the simple pieties of the people?

— Simon Blackburn

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

— Karl Marx

[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

For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I…

— Gregg Easterbrook

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

— William James

Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker…

— Thomas Carlyle

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

— E. O. Wilson

Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea They thought great thoughts about liberty Poets wrote down words that did…

— Van Morrison

I think Phil Dick was particularly interesting in that, first of all, he was a very modern man and a very modern…

— Ridley Scott

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

— Jethro Tull

Make a list of your friends and determine who is the most positive thinker among them and deliberately cultivate his society.

— Norman Vincent Peale

Many of the left thinkers that really matter to me - that formed a big part of my thinking about politics and…

— Ben Lerner

I wish to fill in the gaps which have so far always remained unanswered in the souls of men as burning questions,…

— Abd-ru-shin

Once we have found ourselves, we must understand how from time to time to lose--and then to find--ourselves once again: assuming,that is,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

I work out for my head as much as I do for my body. I'm a thinker. A lot of my ideas…

— Grete Waitz

I've heard people say that the trouble with the world is that we haven't enough great leaders. I think we haven't enough…

— Babe Ruth

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

— Sri Aurobindo

Most political journalists come to Washington because they're snappy writers, big thinkers, or news breakers. Me? My ticket to the big leagues…

— Ron Fournier

I recognize that many physicists are smarter than I am-most of them theoretical physicists. A lot of smart people have gone into…

— Linus Pauling

But whenever one meets modern thinkers (as one often does) progressing toward a madhouse, one always finds, on inquiry, that they have…

— Anonymous

Putting Instagram into a different context is about rescuing it from the tyranny of now, taking it back from the muddy river…

— Frances Stark

There are those, of course, who deny that they need any form of authority. They are the popular atheists and agnostics. Such…

— Cornelius Van Til

I've always been a very rebellious, philosophical person, so my mother set the foundation for my appreciation for nature and my empathy…

— Adrian Grenier

There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavour of life until he has known poverty, love and war.…

— O. Henry

The bourgeois thinkers of the eighteenth century thus turned Aristotle's formula on its head: satisfactions which the Greek philosopher had identified with…

— Alain de Botton

As thinkers, mankind has ever divided into two sects, Materialists and Idealists; the first class founding on experience, the second on consciousness;…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Emile M. Cioran

I've always been a big, bold thinker and a dreamer.

— Kelsea Ballerini

I was not a public - I was not a thinker. I was a doer.

— Bill Moyers

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

— Anonymous

Uncommon thinkers reuse what common thinkers refuse

— J. R. D. Tata

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

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

— J. B. Pritzker