Thinker Quotes · Page 8

A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure.

— Hugh Kingsmill

I've always been a curious thinker. And now, as an adult, I can articulate it.

— Tracee Ellis Ross

“You are not a real thinker if your thoughts haven't landed you in trouble yet”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

I like to think of myself as a pure rebel; A radical thinker on a musical level.

— D-Nice

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

I aint a drinker Im a thinker, call it what you want

— Kendrick Lamar

You could be a rebel, a profound thinker, and a rock and roll maniac and still eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and…

— Pamela Des Barres

We tend to think of great thinkers and innovators as soloists, but the truth is that the greatest innovative thinking doesn't occur…

— John C. Maxwell

... the atheists, libertines, despisers of religion ... that is to say all those who usually pass under the name of Free-thinkers.

— Jonathan Swift

I really believe the most handicapped [person] in the whole world is a negative thinker.

— Heather Whitestone

The founding fathers were not only brilliant, they were system builders and systematic thinkers. They came up with comprehensive plans and visions.

— Ron Chernow

A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I'm a bit of a thinker so I think a lot, and process a lot, and it always evolves into something different.

— Adriano Zumbo

If we allow ourselves to dwell on negatives, on hurts, on mistreatments, we will be negative thinkers. So be open to positive…

— Benjamin Carson

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

— Isaiah Berlin

Our understanding of the thought of the past is liable to be the more adequate, the less the historian is convinced of…

— Leo Strauss

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

“The Master Thinker is an artist and is careful to paint only the divine designs upon the canvas of his mind; and…

— Anonymous

Our advanced and fashionable thinkers are, naturally, out on a wide swing of the pendulum, away from the previous swing of the…

— Anthony Standen

Roberto Calasso's survey of the renewed interest in myth demonstrates how decisive the gods' influence was on modern literature. Calasso is not…

— Charles Simic

My mother Vivian Ayers always instilled within her children that our opinions, our thoughts and our ideas about what was possible was…

— Debbie Allen

You are so terribly nimble, so clever. I distrust your cleverness. You make a wonderful pattern, everything is in its place, it…

— Anais Nin

We use up words like 'spiritual' so fast in this culture. Twenty years ago spiritual had a distinct meaning. But now there's…

— George Carlin

It is characteristic of fundamental discoveries, of great achievements of the intellect, that they retain an undiminished power upon the imagination of…

— Nikola Tesla

I've been really happy to be in that conversation with Scott [Derrickson] for a few months now. We started chewing this cud…

— Tilda Swinton

I think he [King Edward] was a modernizer who was a new thinker. The things he intended to do - unify the…

— Max Irons

When I was 16 I started keeping a diary in which I recorded my disagreements with the famous philosophers. I didn't insist…

— Albert Ellis

I believe that pity is a law like justice, and that kindness is a duty like uprightness. That which is weak has…

— Victor Hugo

I believe that there is but One Thinker in the universe; that my thinking is His thinking, and that every man's thinking…

— Walter 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

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Know thy self, and the world will be thy oyster!”

— Abhijit Naskar

So many thinkers, so few doers. -Nabil N. Jamal

— Nabil Jamal

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

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

— Edward Snowden