Thinker Quotes

492 Thinker quotes by 370 unique authors

I've spent most of my life trying to think my way to happiness, and my failure to achieve that goal only proves, in my mind,… — Eric Weiner
The small are always dependent on the great; they are "small" precisely because they think they are independent. The great thinker is one who can… — Martin Heidegger
The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not â€œthe thinker.â€ The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness… — Eckhart Tolle
There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other. Every serious and reflective person… — Max Planck
The real thinkers of the world aren't the best dressed. Staying on top of the latest fashions, accessorizing, and presenting oneself is time consuming. It… — Karen Marie Moning
The man assumes the role of the loner, the thinker and the searching spirit who calls the privileged and the powerful to task. The power… — Bryce Courtenay
But whenever one meets modern thinkers (as one often does) progressing towards a madhouse, one always finds, on inquiry, that they have just had a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots — Douglas Adams
I am what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker - a mere diversion, a comic interlude, something that is soon forgotten. — Anne Frank
The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you… — Diana Wynne Jones
There's nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker to set the intellectual community atwitter and cause academics to dart about… — Woody Allen
Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those who have read… — Arthur Schopenhauer
People with eating disorders tend to be very diametrical thinkers â€“ everything is the end of the world, everything rides on this one thing, and… — Marya Hornbacher
But hope has an astonishing resilience and strength. Its very persistence in our hearts indicates that it is not a tonic for wishful thinkers but… — Kathleen Norris
When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly,… — Bertrand Russell
[The kitchen] was also messy--delightfully so, thought Jane--and it didn't look as though lots of cooking went on there. There was a laptop computer on… — Jeanne Birdsall
No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to… — John Stuart Mill
He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things. — Anton Chekhov
You are so terribly nimble, so clever. I distrust your cleverness. You make a wonderful pattern, everything is in its place, it looks convincingly clear,… — Anais Nin

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