Thinker Quotes

492 quotes by 370 authors

All great thinkers are initially ridiculed - and eventually revered. — Robin Sharma
Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker. — Richard Dawkins
Yet as I cast my eye over the whole course of science I behold instances of false science, even more pretentious and popular than that… — Arthur Lynch
Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind-computer programmers who could crank code, lawyers who… — Daniel H. Pink
I do not think that G. H. Hardy was talking nonsense when he insisted that the mathematician was discovering rather than creating, nor was it… — Brand Blanshard
Believing is easier than thinking; that's why there will always be more believers than thinkers. However, the results of god-belief are often far more mental… — Mark Thomas
I work out for my head as much as I do for my body. I'm a thinker. A lot of my ideas come to me… — Grete Waitz
The chimpanzee and the human share about 99.5 percent of their evolutionary history, yet most human thinkers regard the chimp as a malformed, irrelevant oddity,… — Unknown Author
I believe that pity is a law like justice, and that kindness is a duty like uprightness. That which is weak has a right to… — Victor Hugo
I think you must remember that a writer is a simple-minded person to begin with and go on that basis. He's not a great mind,… — Erskine Caldwell
I WILL SPARK A GENERATION OF THINKERS WHO WILL QUESTION TRADITIONAL THOUGHT UNTIL THEY FIND THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH — Kanye West
Reincarnation contains a most comforting explanation of reality by means of which Indian thought surmounts difficulties which baffle the thinkers of Europe. — Albert Schweitzer
The doctrine of transmigrationÂ… was a means of constructing a plausible vindication of the ways of the cosmos to man; Â… none but very hasty… — Thomas Huxley
Since the time of the ancient Greeks a democracy has depended on its philosophers and creative artists. It can only flourish by continuous probing, prodding,… — Uta Hagen
Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers. — John Stuart Mill
I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers — John D. Rockefeller
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it has become too… — Friedrich Nietzsche
[T]he influence of the German school is most obvious in relation to the contract theory of the origin of the state and the idea of… — Charles Edward Merriam

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