Thinker Quotes

492 quotes by 370 authors

I had a friend in college who loved to say: 'If you can dream it, you can do it.' It became my mantra. I assumed… — Michele Gorman
Maybe sometimes I'm such a thinker, I reevaluate too much. Sometimes when it comes down to it, I really don't need to do anything, I… — Michael Chang
The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists. — Helen Keller
That was what stuck in the craws of all the good women of Deptford: Mrs Dempster had not been raped, as a decent woman would… — Robertson Davies
The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. — Henry David Thoreau
There is a tendency among many shallow thinkers of our day to teach that every human act is a reflex, over which we do not… — Fulton J. Sheen
A thought may be very commendable as a thought, but I value it chiefly as a window through which I can obtain insight on the… — Alexander Smith
For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly… — Gregg Easterbrook
If you want to be a sharp thinker, be around sharp people. — John C. Maxwell
I think sometimes I should do more carousing, because I don't do much and maybe it would be fun occasionally. It's hard for me to… — Garry Shandling
They can ta'k our lives but they can never ta'k our freedom!' Now there's a battle cry not designed by a clear thinker — Terry Pratchett
In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The act of thinking and interpreting is so central to Judaism that it makes more sense that we've become people like Woody Allen - thinkers… — Tony Kushner
I am not an original thinker-but I am an original listener.) — Aravind Adiga
I wouldn't say I was a born writer; I'm a born thinker. — John Lennon
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 care about thinking,… — Gregory Maguire
The mark of the superior thinker is his or her ability to accurately predict the consequences of doing or not doing something. — Brian Tracy
The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the… — Ernst Mach
A just thinker will allow full swing to his scepticism. I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
My political philosophy as a libertarian says that government has no business intervening in any consensual private behavior. My professional ethic as a thinker and… — Camille Paglia

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