Thinker Quotes

492 Thinker quotes by 370 unique authors

It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love… — Hermann Hesse
A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback, had the cover laminated in… — Anne Fadiman
Every great thinker keeps a journal, you know. — Trenton Lee Stewart
Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood. — Friedrich Nietzsche
All things are at odds when God sets a thinker loose on the planet — Edith Hamilton
I always tell my students that Malcolm X came both to his spirituality and to his consciousness as a thinker when he had solitude to… — Bell Hooks
However, displayed right alongside all the Confederate flag paraphernalia is a bunch of American flag merch â€“ American flag place mats, patriotic â€œbody crystals,â€ flag… — Sarah Vowell
An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Some people are destined to be deep thinkers. I am not one of those people. — Jen Lancaster
We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall, and in our… — Hermann Hesse
A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious one's vocabulary and the greater one's awareness… — Henry Hazlitt
It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters. — Friedrich Nietzsche
We learn that many great thinkers were convinced that the Bible contained the Ancient Mysteries, but not in the literal wordsâ€”that the words on the… — Maureen Johnson
I am too inquisitive, too skeptical, too arrogant, to let myself be satisfied with an obvious and crass solution of things. God is such an… — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are the main thing. If they are on the other… — Terry Pratchett
When you listen and read one thinker, you become a cloneâ€¦ two thinkers, you become confusedâ€¦ ten thinkers, youâ€™ll begin developing your own voiceâ€¦ two… — Timothy Keller
Why do airline pilots always call passengers "folks"? I don't usually take umbrage at generic terminology--I'm one of those forward-thinkers who believes that "man" encompasses… — C.E. Murphy
Here is the point about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not hold… — Christopher Hitchens
My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words,… — Thomas Hardy
Individual heterosexual women came to the movement from relationships where men were cruel, unkind, violent, unfaithful. Many of these men were radical thinkers who participated… — Bell Hooks

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