Thinker Quotes
492 Thinker quotes by 370 unique authors
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No writer or thinker has taught me as much as James Hunter has about this all-important and complex subject of how culture is changed.
— Timothy Keller
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This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the…
— James Russell Lowell
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Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
— Sophocles
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God be thanked for the thinkers of good and noble thoughts! It wakes up all the best in ourselves, to come into close contact with…
— Lucy Larcom
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The importance of an individual thinker owes something to chance. For it depends upon the fate of his ideas in the minds of his successors.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and…
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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It's been important to me to be a good activist, a good thinker, a good musician, a good singer, and a good entertainer. You can't…
— Holly Near
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The thinker without a paradox is like a lover without a feeling: a paltry mediocrity.
— Soren Kierkegaard
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It is important to remember that some of the most serious thinkers once thought that democracy was not compatible with the cultures of Germany, Italy,…
— Natan Sharansky
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Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.
— Criss Jami
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Well, I outline fanatically. I am a long thinker and a slow writer, though I am trying to get faster.
— William Landay
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I have epiphanies all the time, because I'm always thinking. I'm a thinker. I'm always writing poetry, I'm always coming to conclusions.
— Chrisette Michele
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There is, fortunately, a minority composed of those who recognize early in their lives that the most beautiful and satisfying experiences open to humankind are…
— Albert Einstein
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If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a…
— Jack Canfield
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Try to be original in your play and as clever as possible; but don't be afraid to show yourself foolish; we must have freedom of…
— Anton Chekhov
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The universe can best be pictured as consisting of pure thought, the thought of what for want of a better word we must describe as…
— James Jeans
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If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after every triumph of…
— Daniel Dennett
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I'm admittedly a record guy. Singles and I are a different beast. I'm definitely an overall picture thinker.
— David Cook
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It takes me time to realize things; I'm a speedy person but a slow thinker.
— Julie Christie
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George Harrison was known as the quiet Beatle. Quiet people are often quiet because they are deep thinkers.
— Ray Comfort
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Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or…
— Stanley Crouch
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I got to sit down with people who I admired, and have conversations with some of the greatest thinkers and artists and performers. It's a…
— James Daly
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Events and developments, such as ... the Copernican Revolution, ... occurred only because some thinkers either decided not to be bound by certain "obvious" methodological…
— Paul Feyerabend
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The doer and the thinker, no allowances for the other, as the failing light illuminates the mercenaries creed.
— Jethro Tull
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Our economy is built upon convergent thinkers, people that execute things, get them done. But artists and designers are divergent thinkers: they expand the horizon…
— John Maeda
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