Thinker Quotes

492 quotes by 370 authors

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
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
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
Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them. — Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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
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
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
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
The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth. — Agnes Repplier
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
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
Wise thinkers prevail everywhere. — Sophocles
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
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
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
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
The thinker without a paradox is like a lover without a feeling: a paltry mediocrity. — Soren Kierkegaard
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
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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