Thinkers Quotes

239 Thinkers quotes by 192 unique authors

Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest creative thinkers of all time, strongly recommended the habit of meditation in the dark. He wrote: "For I… — Wilferd Peterson
What we take ourselves to be doing when we think about what is the case or how we should act is something that cannot be… — Thomas Nagel
True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery. — Victor Hugo
God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition to us: you… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Positive thinkers think and talk continually about solutions, and negative thinkers continually talk and think about problems. Keep your mind solution-focuse d rather than problem-… — Brian Tracy
I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of… — Cynthia Ozick
The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers. — William Hazlitt
Readers are leaders. Thinkers succeed. — Marva Collins
The Founding Fathers were neither passive, death-worshipin g mystics nor mindless, power-seeking looters; as a political group they were a phenomenon unprecedented in history: they… — Ayn Rand
We don't need no more rappers, we don't need no more basketball players, no more football players. We need more thinkers. We need more scientists.… — Tupac Shakur
Thinking should be like musical meditation. Has any philosopher pursued a thought to its limits the way Bach or Beethoven develop and exhaust a musical… — Emile M. Cioran
You're told that you're in your head too much, a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Or maybe there's another word for… — Susan Cain
Let's teach our children to be thinkers. — Jacque Fresco
Good thinkers are always in demand. A person who knows how may always have a job, but the person who knows why will always be… — John C. Maxwell
All great artists and thinkers are great workers. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Even in a hierarchy people can be equal as thinkers. — Nancy Kline
The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists. — Helen Keller
That was what stuck in the craws of all the good women of Deptford: Mrs Dempster had not been raped, as a decent woman would… — Robertson Davies
The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. — Henry David Thoreau
There is a tendency among many shallow thinkers of our day to teach that every human act is a reflex, over which we do not… — Fulton J. Sheen
The act of thinking and interpreting is so central to Judaism that it makes more sense that we've become people like Woody Allen - thinkers… — Tony Kushner
If at times I have thought myself unfortunate, it is because of a confusion, an error. I have mistaken myself for someone else... Who am… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Since strict obedience is demanded and harshly enforced, only the least talented, least articulate, least nuanced thinkers, least likely to take a stand against abuse,… — Kate Kelly
From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done that… — Adam Savage

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