Thinker famous quotes
06-24-2025
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You need good thinkers around you. Without them, you will go broke.
-- Adolf Dassler -
You can't be a good writer without being a good thinker.
-- Andy Rooney -
It is the hardest thing in the world to be a good thinker without being a good self examiner.
-- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury -
I am not an original thinker-but I am an original listener.)
-- Aravind Adiga -
There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
Giorgio Agamben is possibly the most delicate and probing thinker since Walter Benjamin.
-- Avital Ronell -
The mark of the superior thinker is his or her ability to accurately predict the consequences of doing or not doing something.
-- Brian Tracy -
No earnest thinker is a plagiarist pure and simple. He will never borrow from others that which he has not already, more or less, thought out for himself.
-- Charles Kingsley -
Hesitancy in judgment is the only true mark of the thinker.
-- Dagobert D. Runes -
All things are at odds when God sets a thinker loose on the planet
-- Edith Hamilton -
Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.
-- Gabriel Marcel -
For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker.
-- Gregg Easterbrook -
From Gadamer I learned that to understand a given thinker requires one to presuppose that he is right.
-- Hans-Georg Gadamer -
Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.
-- Harriet Martineau -
The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers.
-- Henri Frederic Amiel -
I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
-- Hippolyte Taine -
A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure.
-- Hugh Kingsmill -
Uncommon thinkers reuse what common thinkers refuse
-- J. R. D. Tata -
The universe can best be pictured as consisting of pure thought, the thought of what for want of a better word we must describe as a mathematical thinker.
-- James Jeans -
Some people are destined to be deep thinkers. I am not one of those people.
-- Jen Lancaster -
Is there a thinker apart from thought?
-- Jiddu Krishnamurti -
I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers
-- John D. Rockefeller -
Exceptional thinkers ignore their critics and go about their business making history.
-- John Eliot -
I wouldn't say I was a born writer; I'm a born thinker.
-- John Lennon -
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
-- Jonathan Swift -
The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.
-- Jose Bergamin -
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 -
It takes me time to realize things; I'm a speedy person but a slow thinker.
-- Julie Christie -
I'm not on all the time. I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker.
-- Keenen Ivory Wayans -
I aint a drinker Im a thinker, call it what you want
-- Kendrick Lamar -
Like all former thinkers, I'm writing a book.
-- Lillian Hellman -
Thinkers prepare the revolution and bandits carry it out.
-- Mariano Azuela -
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 hear what is greatest in the work of other "greats" and who can transform it in an original manner.
-- Martin Heidegger -
In poetry there are two giants, rough Homer and fine Shakespere. In music likewise we have two giants, Beethoven, the thinker, and the superthinker Berlioz.
-- Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky -
Clearly, Enlightenment thinkers were seeking a God substitute.
-- Nancy Pearcey -
A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it.
-- Norman Vincent Peale -
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
George Harrison was known as the quiet Beatle. Quiet people are often quiet because they are deep thinkers.
-- Ray Comfort -
What the thinker thinks, the prover proves
-- Robert Anton Wilson -
[Emerson] was interested not in the bookworm, not even in the thinker, only in Man Thinking.
-- Robert D. Richardson -
All great thinkers are initially ridiculed - and eventually revered.
-- Robin Sharma -
The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought: ...
-- Sri Aurobindo -
Every great thinker keeps a journal, you know.
-- Trenton Lee Stewart -
As a Jewish thinker, I don't think of myself in relationship to the dominant culture's religion.
-- Emily Barton -
The creative thinker must stand sufficiently detached from his work.
-- Mary Henle -
Now, don't get me wrong: I'm not rubbishing penal substitution. But there are other options that have been advocated by Reformed thinkers of the past.
-- Oliver D. Crisp -
[James Mattis] is a student of history. He's a strategic thinker.
-- Michele Flournoy -
My engineering training taught me to be a systems thinker. I looked at companies as "systems" and saw work as a system of tasks - that needed to be reengineered. I was also focused on operations, getting things done and built. My engineering training taught me to be a pragmatist.
-- James A. Champy -
A thinker reverses roles and sees the perspectives of others.
-- James Cook
