Thinker Quotes

492 Thinker quotes by 370 unique authors

I think you must remember that a writer is a simple-minded person to begin with and go on that basis. He's not a great mind,… — Erskine Caldwell
I WILL SPARK A GENERATION OF THINKERS WHO WILL QUESTION TRADITIONAL THOUGHT UNTIL THEY FIND THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH — Kanye West
Reincarnation contains a most comforting explanation of reality by means of which Indian thought surmounts difficulties which baffle the thinkers of Europe. — Albert Schweitzer
The doctrine of transmigrationÂ… was a means of constructing a plausible vindication of the ways of the cosmos to man; Â… none but very hasty… — Thomas Huxley
Since the time of the ancient Greeks a democracy has depended on its philosophers and creative artists. It can only flourish by continuous probing, prodding,… — Uta Hagen
Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers. — John Stuart Mill
I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers — John D. Rockefeller
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it has become too… — Friedrich Nietzsche
[T]he influence of the German school is most obvious in relation to the contract theory of the origin of the state and the idea of… — Charles Edward Merriam
The world's greatest thinkers have often been amateurs; for high thinking is the outcome of fine and independent living, and for that a professional chair… — Havelock Ellis
Since my first discussions of ecological problems with Professor John Day around 1950 and since reading Konrad Lorenz's "King Solomon's Ring," I have become increasingly… — Allan McLeod Cormack
One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior must none the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers. — John C. Maxwell
Every great thinker is someone else's moron. — Umberto Eco
If you want a convincing account of just how deep the shift in our new axial age is and must be, look no further than… — Unknown Author
Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination. You will meet the great thinkers who will share with you… — Neil Armstrong
Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial. — George Will
It’s very hard to have ideas. It’s very hard to put yourself out there, it’s very hard to be vulnerable, but those people who do… — Amy Poehler
You need good thinkers around you. Without them, you will go broke. — Adolf Dassler
Atheists tend to read only each other’s books and not the work of the religious thinkers they are supposedly refuting. — Edward Feser
Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By nature we are laconic speakers and by… — Julia Gillard
As a thinker I keep discovering that beauty itself is as much a fact, and a mystery...I consider nature's facts -- its beautiful and grotesque… — Annie Dillard
There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It must be noted that it is often the colleague or direct disciple of a new thinker who gets stuck in literal interpretations of the… — Uta Hagen

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