Thinker Quotes

492 quotes by 370 authors

If only our great thinkers could learn to talk, and our great talkers could learn to think. — Ashleigh Brilliant
This nation was built by men who took risks-pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, businessmen who were not afraid of failure, scientists who… — Brooks Atkinson
Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so dam serious. — Jacques Maritain
The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality, a… — Aldous Huxley
The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal. — Walter Lippmann
Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker on record, David Hume: a… — John Stuart Mill
God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think! — Friedrich Nietzsche
The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial. — Benjamin Disraeli
Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare. — Harriet Martineau
I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. — Hippolyte Taine
No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of the Epistles were… — George MacDonald
Know thyself! This is the source of all wisdom, said the great thinkers of the past, and the sentence was written in golden letters on… — Karl Ernst von Baer
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
There is no violent surface indication of the ecstasy which great thinkers alone enjoy. There is nothing dramatic about it, but there is some subtle… — Walter Russell
I learned to cross the threshold of my studio with reverence, as though I were entering a shrine set apart for me to become co-creator… — Walter Russell
The first effect of the mind growing cultivated is that processes once multiple get to be performed in a single act. Lazarus has called this… — William James
I'm quite a neurotic thinker, quite an adrenalized person. But after meditation, I felt this beautiful serenity and selfless connection. — Russell Brand
Instead of 'watching the thinker,' you can also create a gap in the mind stream simply by directing the focus of your attention into the… — Eckhart Tolle
The sexiest people are thinkers. — Vivienne Westwood
One man has discovered that by running there is no need to meditate, just by running meditation happens. He must be absolutely body oriented. Nobody… — Rajneesh

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