Thinker Quotes
492 quotes by 370 authors
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Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude.…
— Bill Viola
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Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.
— Robert Greene
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He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Talk of world peace is heard today only among the white peoples, and not among the much more numerous coloured races. This is a perilous…
— Oswald Spengler
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I aint a drinker Im a thinker, call it what you want
— Kendrick Lamar
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Positive thinkers get positive results because they are not afraid of problems.
— Ken Blanchard
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What the thinker thinks, the prover proves
— Robert Anton Wilson
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When the Spirit illuminates the heart, then a part of the man sees which never saw before; a part of him knows which never knew…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and right and wrong,…
— John Owen
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Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological movements of their…
— Wilhelm Dilthey
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A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much…
— Robert Musil
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I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep…
— Walter Mosley
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The Truth about Leo Strauss is the most balanced and insightful book yet written about Strauss's thought, students, and political influence. It dispels myths promulgated…
— William Galston
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We humans, though troubled and warlike, are also the dreams, thinkers, and explorers inhabiting one achingly beautiful planet, yearning for the sublime, and capable of…
— Carolyn Porco
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Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.
— Gabriel Marcel
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The realm of consciousness is much vaster than thought can grasp. When you no longer believe everything you think, you step out of thought and…
— Eckhart Tolle
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We feel an affinity with a certain thinker because we agree with him; or because he shows us what we were already thinking; or because…
— Lydia Davis
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