Thinker Quotes · Page 8

I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker.

— Keenen Ivory Wayans

The profession of being a creative thinker is not so obvious.

— David M. Kelley

We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers.

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots

— Douglas Adams

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

— Emile M. Cioran

Remember, every great leader (or visionary or brave thinker) was initially laughed at. Now they are revered.

— Robin Sharma

A believer is not a thinker and a thinker is not a believer.

— Marian Noel Sherman

Try to be original in your play and as clever as possible; but don't be afraid to show yourself foolish; we must…

— Anton Chekhov

I consider Paine our greatest political thinker. As we have not advanced, and perhaps never shall advance, beyond the Declaration and Constitution,…

— Thomas A. Edison

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

— Thomas Carlyle

You have to give credit where credit's due. Steve [Jobs] has been probably the single hardware/software forward-looking thinker and executor in our…

— Christopher Galvin

People are a lot more open than even they think they are. And I feel like I carry a heavy story about…

— Lizz Wright

It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are the main thing. If they are…

— Terry Pratchett

The judges of England have rarely been original thinkers or great jurists. Many have been craftsmen rather than creators.

— Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin

The ploughman knows how many acres he shall upturn from dawn to sunset: but the thinker knows not what a day may…

— John Lancaster Spalding

It would be wrong of me to suppose that just because I can form private mental images, that everyone can. As Francis…

— David Berman

To remain stable is to refrain from trying to separate yourself from a pain because you know that you cannot. Running away…

— Anonymous

What makes a free thinker is not his beliefs, but the way in which he holds them. If he holds them because…

— Bertrand Russell

In every philosophical school, three thinkers succeed one another in the following way: the first produces out of himself the sapand seed,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Perhaps unsurprisingly, there's a paradox here! Kierkegaard's own indirect communication proposes that we start with the experience of those who don't believe…

— George Pattison

Kropp on the other hand is a thinker. He proposes that a declaration of war should be a kind of popular festival…

— Anonymous

Brisk talkers are usually slow thinkers. There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing…

— Jonathan Swift

We forget that we create the situations, then we give our power away by blaming the other person for our frustration. No…

— Louise Hay

From Gadamer I learned that to understand a given thinker requires one to presuppose that he is right.

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.

— Bertrand Russell

“Assumptions are quick exits for lazy minds that like to graze out in the fields without bother.”

— Suzy Kassem

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

— Karl Marx

I'm a big thinker, and sometimes I think too much, and my brain can get in the way of myself.

— Amanda Crew

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

— Edward Snowden

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

My mother was a very positive thinker; she was always active, always doing something good.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

“Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery.

— Victor Hugo

Comedians are thinkers. The best ones are akin to philosophers, in my opinion.

— Ted Alexandro

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

— Douglas Adams

A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it.

— Norman Vincent Peale

It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.

— Max Planck