Thinker Quotes

492 quotes by 380 authors

The world's greatest thinkers have often been amateurs; for high thinking is the outcome of fine and independent living, and for that a professional chair… — Havelock Ellis
Since my first discussions of ecological problems with Professor John Day around 1950 and since reading Konrad Lorenz's "King Solomon's Ring," I have become increasingly… — Allan McLeod Cormack
One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior must none the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers. — John C. Maxwell
Every great thinker is someone else's moron. — Umberto Eco
If you want a convincing account of just how deep the shift in our new axial age is and must be, look no further than… — Michel Bauwens
Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination. You will meet the great thinkers who will share with you… — Neil Armstrong
Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial. — George Will
Itâ€™s very hard to have ideas. Itâ€™s very hard to put yourself out there, itâ€™s very hard to be vulnerable, but those people who do… — Amy Poehler
You need good thinkers around you. Without them, you will go broke. — Adolf Dassler
Atheists tend to read only each otherâ€™s books and not the work of the religious thinkers they are supposedly refuting. — Edward Feser
Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By nature we are laconic speakers and by… — Julia Gillard
As a thinker I keep discovering that beauty itself is as much a fact, and a mystery...I consider nature's facts -- its beautiful and grotesque… — Annie Dillard
There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It must be noted that it is often the colleague or direct disciple of a new thinker who gets stuck in literal interpretations of the… — Uta Hagen
And when you look at the twentieth-century experiment with collectivism-that Ayn Rand, more than anybody else, did such a good job of articulating the pitfalls… — Paul Ryan
I just take the Bible for what it is, I guess, and recognize that I am not a scientist, not trained to be a scientist.… — Michele Bachmann
The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. A great book that comes from a great thinker is a… — Theodore Parker
Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation. — Emile M. Cioran
Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory… — Edgar Allan Poe

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