Thinker Quotes

492 quotes by 370 authors

The most extravagant idea that can be born in the head of a political thinker is to believe that it suffices for people to enter,… — Maximilien Robespierre
I recognize that many physicists are smarter than I am-most of them theoretical physicists. A lot of smart people have gone into theoretical physics, therefore… — Linus Pauling
The progressive agenda is actually legitimated by the incomprehension and anger it elicits: If the people do not resent and resist what is being done… — George Will
The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.. — Edgar Fiedler
Back in the 1930s, Carl Jung, the eminent thinker and psychologist, put it this way: Criticism has 'the power to do good when there is… — Donald O. Clifton
To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be. — Ayn Rand
My heart was filled with gratitude, with thankfulness, and went out in love to all the heroes, the thinkers who gave their lives for the… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are… — John Polkinghorne
The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a… — Carroll Quigley
I believe that our very survival depends upon us becoming better systems thinkers. — Margaret J. Wheatley
Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it but the free-thinker alone is truly free. — George Berkeley
The Warrior listens to the words of certain thinkers. — Paulo Coelho
I think that my work is easy to understand because I am not a thinker, I am not a... How can I put it? I… — Sharon Olds
I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print — Laurell K. Hamilton
The underlying assumption that human nature is basically the same at all times, everywhere, and obeys eternal laws beyond human control, is a conception that… — Isaiah Berlin
I have observed that male writers tend to get asked what they think and women what they feel. In my experience, and that of a… — Eleanor Catton
The true Enlightenment thinker, the true rationalist, never wants to talk anyone into anything. No, he does not even want to convince; all the time… — Karl Popper
My only wish isto transform friends of God into friends of man, believers into thinkers, devotees of prayer into devotees of work, candidates for the… — Ludwig Feuerbach
Lucidity of speech is unquestionably one of the surest tests of mental precision...In my experience a confused talker is never a clear thinker. — David Lloyd George
I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated. — George Bernard Shaw

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