Thinker Quotes · Page 5

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

— William James

Thinkers, makers and traders are the DNA of the world class company

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

The thinker is going to find a way to put clothes on his back.

— Marlon Cortez Stanfield

Clearly, Enlightenment thinkers were seeking a God substitute.

— Nancy Pearcey

First, he must hold rational values, and to do this he must be a thinker.

— Andrew Bernstein

Hesitancy in judgment is the only true mark of the thinker.

— Dagobert D. Runes

It is the hardest thing in the world to be a good thinker without being a good self examiner.

— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought.

— Frank Moore Colby

The doctrine of transmigrationÂ… was a means of constructing a plausible vindication of the ways of the cosmos to man; Â… none…

— Thomas Huxley

Somewhere along the line, I conditioned myself to be a quick thinker. I take a step back and try to assess the…

— Jonathan Sadowski

“They say, love God, for it is the greatest virtue. I say, love humans, for there is no greater virtue, no greater…

— Abhijit Naskar

I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious…

— Laura Riding

Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.

— Criss Jami

The amazing thing about working in social media and technology is that you can get to know the sharpest thinkers from around…

— Suw Charman-Anderson

Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise.…

— Eckhart Tolle

Thinkers are scarce as gold; but he whose thoughts embrace all his subject, and who pursues it uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences,…

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

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

— Wilferd Peterson

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

To many writers and thinkers, though not to all, another text is, or can be, the most naked and charged of life-forces…

— George Steiner

“Being a thinker was a various thing. Sometimes you felt like a turtle, with a nice, private built-in place to shelter. Other…

— Tricia Springstubb

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

— Anais Nin

Democracy is the product of human thought and reasoning. It's true that philosophers and thinkers have always imagined a utopia in which…

— Simin Behbahani

It is doubtful whether our present system of popular education does not retard independent or self thinking as much as it promotes…

— Joseph Alexander Leighton

Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person…

— Stanley Crouch

Snowden is an orderly thinker, with an engineer's approach to problem-solving.

— Barton Gellman

The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.

— Henry David Thoreau

Man is a slow, sloppy and brilliant thinker; the machine is fast, accurate and stupid.

— William Moore Kelly

Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial.

— George Will

Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I was a romantic, messy thinker. I was raised with very conservative beliefs, but that was a long time ago.

— Julia Child

Independent thinkers are usually geniuses or idiots and at times it's hard to tell which.

— James Cook

A hero holds purposes appropriate to man and is, therefore, a thinker.

— Andrew Bernstein

Hayek, in my view, is the leading economic thinker of the 20th century.

— Vernon L. Smith

I am a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments.

— Roger Federer

There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Thinkers prepare the revolution and bandits carry it out.

— Mariano Azuela

“I pride myself in being a deep thinker, and I want you to be one too.”

— Ehab Atalla

I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker, and you have to stop all that to write a novel.

— Hilary Mantel

“And when were theories useless? I was a thinker, not a fighter, and the world was always in need of thoughts.”

— Jaida Jones

A possibility thinker notices a problem just long enough to get excited about the solution.

— Alan Cohen