Thinker Quotes · Page 7

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

— Jethro Tull

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

— Sherry Argov

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

— Edgar Fiedler

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

— Edith Hamilton

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

— Scott Fujita

Why should thinkers mock the simple pieties of the people?

— Simon Blackburn

The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.

— Helen Keller

Slow thinkers are part of the game too. Some of these slow thinkers can hit a ball a long way.

— Alvin Dark

I am what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker - a mere diversion, a comic interlude, something that is soon…

— Anne Frank

Individual thinkers since the days of Ezekiel and Isaiah have asserted that the despoliation of land is not only inexpedient but wrong.…

— Aldo Leopold

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

— Isaiah Berlin

Some 'advanced thinkers' are of the opinion that anyone who differs from the conventional opinion must be in the right. This is…

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Julia Gillard

Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.

— Theodor Reik

I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by…

— Sigmund Freud

“Don’t spend all your time dwelling on problems, thinking won’t solve them. Be a problem solver, not just a problem thinker.”

— Onipede Ayomide

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

A crowd of grade-three thinkers, all shouting the same thing, all warming their hands at the fire of their own prejudices, will…

— William Golding

[The kitchen] was also messy--delightfully so, thought Jane--and it didn't look as though lots of cooking went on there. There was a…

— Jeanne Birdsall

“The first thinker was, without a doubt, the first man obsessed by why. An unaccustomed mania, not at all contagious: rare indeed…

— Emil M. Cioran

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only…

— Soren Kierkegaard

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

That tendency of social thought to generalize, to describe a leading tendency in a society in such a way that it seems…

— Susan Sontag

There is no unmoving mover behind the movement. It is only movement. It is not correct to say that life is moving,…

— Walpola Rahula

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.

— David Hume

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers

— John D. Rockefeller

All great thinkers are initially ridiculed - and eventually revered.

— Robin Sharma

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

— Geno Smith

Politicians cannot create jobs or wealth. Such is axiomatic to straight thinkers.

— Greg Perry

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

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Giorgio Agamben is possibly the most delicate and probing thinker since Walter Benjamin.

— Avital Ronell

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

— Abhijit Naskar

I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

— Hippolyte Taine

Ever since I was a kid, I've always been a real deep thinker and stuff.

— Billy Ray Cyrus

[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