Thinker Quotes

492 Thinker quotes by 370 unique authors

Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker on record, David Hume: a… — John Stuart Mill
God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think! — Friedrich Nietzsche
The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial. — Benjamin Disraeli
Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare. — Harriet Martineau
I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. — Hippolyte Taine
No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of the Epistles were… — George MacDonald
Know thyself! This is the source of all wisdom, said the great thinkers of the past, and the sentence was written in golden letters on… — Karl Ernst von Baer
We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers. — Joseph Chilton Pearce
There is no violent surface indication of the ecstasy which great thinkers alone enjoy. There is nothing dramatic about it, but there is some subtle… — Walter Russell
I learned to cross the threshold of my studio with reverence, as though I were entering a shrine set apart for me to become co-creator… — Walter Russell
The first effect of the mind growing cultivated is that processes once multiple get to be performed in a single act. Lazarus has called this… — William James
I'm quite a neurotic thinker, quite an adrenalized person. But after meditation, I felt this beautiful serenity and selfless connection. — Russell Brand
Instead of 'watching the thinker,' you can also create a gap in the mind stream simply by directing the focus of your attention into the… — Eckhart Tolle
The sexiest people are thinkers. — Vivienne Westwood
One man has discovered that by running there is no need to meditate, just by running meditation happens. He must be absolutely body oriented. Nobody… — Rajneesh
All great thinkers are initially ridiculed - and eventually revered. — Robin Sharma
Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker. — Richard Dawkins
Yet as I cast my eye over the whole course of science I behold instances of false science, even more pretentious and popular than that… — Arthur Lynch
Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind-computer programmers who could crank code, lawyers who… — Daniel H. Pink
I do not think that G. H. Hardy was talking nonsense when he insisted that the mathematician was discovering rather than creating, nor was it… — Brand Blanshard
Believing is easier than thinking; that's why there will always be more believers than thinkers. However, the results of god-belief are often far more mental… — Mark Thomas
I work out for my head as much as I do for my body. I'm a thinker. A lot of my ideas come to me… — Grete Waitz
The chimpanzee and the human share about 99.5 percent of their evolutionary history, yet most human thinkers regard the chimp as a malformed, irrelevant oddity,… — Unknown Author
I believe that pity is a law like justice, and that kindness is a duty like uprightness. That which is weak has a right to… — Victor Hugo

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