Thinker Quotes
492 quotes by 380 authors
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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
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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
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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
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All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.
— John C. Maxwell
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Every great thinker is someone else's moron.
— Umberto Eco
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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
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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
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Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial.
— George Will
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It’s very hard to have ideas. It’s very hard to put yourself out there, it’s very hard to be vulnerable, but those people who do…
— Amy Poehler
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You need good thinkers around you. Without them, you will go broke.
— Adolf Dassler
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Atheists tend to read only each other’s books and not the work of the religious thinkers they are supposedly refuting.
— Edward Feser
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation.
— Emile M. Cioran
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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
Who Wrote These Thinker Quotes
380 authors contributed a total of 492 Thinker Quotes, led by these top contributors: