Thinker Quotes

492 Thinker quotes by 370 unique authors

When you step outside of school and have to teach yourself about life, you develop a different relationship to information. I've never been a purely… — Jay-Z
To remain stable is to refrain from trying to separate yourself from a pain because you know that you cannot. Running away from fear is… — Alan Watts
There is no unmoving mover behind the movement. It is only movement. It is not correct to say that life is moving, but life is… — Walpola Rahula
The philosopher Descartes believed he had found the most fundamental truth when he made his famous statement: "I think, therefore I am." He had, in… — Eckhart Tolle
Be an independent thinker at all times, and ignore anyone who attempts to define you in a limiting way. — Sherry Argov
A free thinker used to be a man who had been educated on ideas of religion, law, morality, and had arrived at free thought by… — Leo Tolstoy
This is probably the advantage of being stupid. Stupid people just do. We tend to overthink. If we could eliminate the “over” and just think,… — Sarah Strohmeyer
The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame. — W. E. B. Du Bois
There are few persons, even among the calmest thinkers, who have not occasionally been startled into a vague yet thrilling half credence in the supernatural,… — Edgar Allan Poe
Attitude is the first quality that marks the successful man. If he has a positive attitude and is a positive thinker, who likes challenges and… — John C. Maxwell
If evil means to be self-motivated, to be the center of one’s own universe, to live on one’s own terms, then every artist, every thinker,… — Janet Fitch
Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Now that you're an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of a good book.… — Susan Cain
The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE. — Winston Churchill
Individual thinkers since the days of Ezekiel and Isaiah have asserted that the despoliation of land is not only inexpedient but wrong. Society, however, has… — Aldo Leopold
I say, 'Get me some poets as managers.' Poets are our original systems thinkers. They contemplate the world in which we live and feel obligated… — Daniel H. Pink
Kropp on the other hand is a thinker. He proposes that a declaration of war should be a kind of popular festival with entrance-tickets and… — Erich Maria Remarque
Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the… — Eckhart Tolle
One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Each part of the mind sees only a little of what happens in some others, and that little is swiftly refined, reformulated and "represented." We… — Marvin Minsky
The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In America, we hurry-which is well; but when the day's work is done, we go on thinking of losses and gains, we plan for the… — Mark Twain
Thinkers do not accept the inevitable; they turn their efforts toward changing it. — Paramahansa Yogananda
See who is the doubter, who is the thinker. It is the ego. Hold it; the other thoughts will die away - the ego will… — Ramana Maharshi

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