Thinker Quotes
492 quotes by 370 authors
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Tabloid discussion of bad children always blames baby-boomer liberals, careerist mothers and fashion-crazed Nathan Barley types who think it's all enormously funny. But the centre-leftish…
— Peter York
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If at times I have thought myself unfortunate, it is because of a confusion, an error. I have mistaken myself for someone else... Who am…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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On the heights it is warmer than people in the valley suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Since strict obedience is demanded and harshly enforced, only the least talented, least articulate, least nuanced thinkers, least likely to take a stand against abuse,…
— Kate Kelly
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From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done that…
— Adam Savage
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As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is…
— Mark Twain
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Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when…
— Victor Hugo
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I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but…
— Sigmund Freud
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.
— Agnes Repplier
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No writer or thinker has taught me as much as James Hunter has about this all-important and complex subject of how culture is changed.
— Timothy Keller
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This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the…
— James Russell Lowell
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Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
— Sophocles
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God be thanked for the thinkers of good and noble thoughts! It wakes up all the best in ourselves, to come into close contact with…
— Lucy Larcom
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The importance of an individual thinker owes something to chance. For it depends upon the fate of his ideas in the minds of his successors.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and…
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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It's been important to me to be a good activist, a good thinker, a good musician, a good singer, and a good entertainer. You can't…
— Holly Near
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The thinker without a paradox is like a lover without a feeling: a paltry mediocrity.
— Soren Kierkegaard
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It is important to remember that some of the most serious thinkers once thought that democracy was not compatible with the cultures of Germany, Italy,…
— Natan Sharansky
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Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.
— Criss Jami
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