Thinkers Quotes

239 Thinkers quotes by 192 unique authors

It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters. — Friedrich Nietzsche
We learn that many great thinkers were convinced that the Bible contained the Ancient Mysteries, but not in the literal words—that the words on the… — Maureen Johnson
I am too inquisitive, too skeptical, too arrogant, to let myself be satisfied with an obvious and crass solution of things. God is such an… — Friedrich Nietzsche
When you listen and read one thinker, you become a clone… two thinkers, you become confused… ten thinkers, you’ll begin developing your own voice… two… — Timothy Keller
Why do airline pilots always call passengers "folks"? I don't usually take umbrage at generic terminology--I'm one of those forward-thinkers who believes that "man" encompasses… — C.E. Murphy
Here is the point about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not hold… — Christopher Hitchens
Individual heterosexual women came to the movement from relationships where men were cruel, unkind, violent, unfaithful. Many of these men were radical thinkers who participated… — Bell Hooks
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
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
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
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 – 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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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