Thinker Quotes

492 Thinker quotes by 370 unique authors

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor. — Soren Kierkegaard
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker… — Soren Kierkegaard
A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep and conformists. — Bill Maher
I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker, and you have to stop all that to write a novel. — Hilary Mantel
I'm not a great deep political thinker. — David Mitchell
I'm not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years. — Haruki Murakami
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but… — Pablo Neruda
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good. — Friedrich Nietzsche
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. — David Ogilvy
It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would… — Camille Paglia
I wouldn't say I'm a very original thinker, but if I have a good experience with something, I'll want to take it further or adapt… — Gwyneth Paltrow
I don't consider myself to be that radical a thinker. — Steven Pinker
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
The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers… — Tariq Ramadan
The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand.… — Paul Ryan
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation,… — Eckhart Tolle
I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals. — Linus Torvalds
I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type… — Ted Turner
Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of… — Thomas J. Watson
I spent 22 years in the United States military, so I'm a pretty strategic level thinker. — Allen West
The sexiest people are thinkers. Nobody's interested in somebody who's just vain with a hole in their head, talking about the latest thing - there… — Vivienne Westwood
Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good… — Venus Williams

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