Thinker Quotes

492 Thinker quotes by 370 unique authors

There is a tendency among many shallow thinkers of our day to teach that every human act is a reflex, over which we do not… — Fulton J. Sheen
A thought may be very commendable as a thought, but I value it chiefly as a window through which I can obtain insight on the… — Alexander Smith
For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly… — Gregg Easterbrook
If you want to be a sharp thinker, be around sharp people. — John C. Maxwell
I think sometimes I should do more carousing, because I don't do much and maybe it would be fun occasionally. It's hard for me to… — Garry Shandling
They can ta'k our lives but they can never ta'k our freedom!' Now there's a battle cry not designed by a clear thinker — Terry Pratchett
In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The act of thinking and interpreting is so central to Judaism that it makes more sense that we've become people like Woody Allen - thinkers… — Tony Kushner
I am not an original thinker-but I am an original listener.) — Aravind Adiga
I wouldn't say I was a born writer; I'm a born thinker. — John Lennon
I'm not a writer because I want to make money. I'm a writer because I'm a very slow thinker, but I do care about thinking,… — Gregory Maguire
The mark of the superior thinker is his or her ability to accurately predict the consequences of doing or not doing something. — Brian Tracy
The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the… — Ernst Mach
A just thinker will allow full swing to his scepticism. I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
My political philosophy as a libertarian says that government has no business intervening in any consensual private behavior. My professional ethic as a thinker and… — Camille Paglia
Tabloid discussion of bad children always blames baby-boomer liberals, careerist mothers and fashion-crazed Nathan Barley types who think it's all enormously funny. But the centre-leftish… — Peter York
If at times I have thought myself unfortunate, it is because of a confusion, an error. I have mistaken myself for someone else... Who am… — Arthur Schopenhauer
On the heights it is warmer than people in the valley suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Since strict obedience is demanded and harshly enforced, only the least talented, least articulate, least nuanced thinkers, least likely to take a stand against abuse,… — Kate Kelly
From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done that… — Adam Savage
As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is… — Mark Twain
Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when… — Victor Hugo
I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but… — Sigmund Freud
The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth. — Agnes Repplier

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