Thinking Person Quotes:

Prayer, to the thinking person, is almost inescapable.

- Marjorie Holmes

source: Marjorie Holmes (1982). “I've/Talk/Somebd/God”, Bantam Books

topic: Prayer, Thinking, Persons, Thinking Person

The thinking person has the strange characteristic to like to create a fantasy in the place of the unsolved problem, a fantasy that stays with the person even when the problem has been solved and truth made its appearance.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Thinking, Strange, Fantasy, Unsolved Problems, Thinking Person

If you actually are an educated, thinking person, you will not be welcome in Washington, D.C. I know a couple of bright seventh graders who would not be welcome in Washington D.C.

- Kurt Vonnegut

source: Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.85, Seven Stories Press

topic: Couple, Thinking, Welcome, Thinking Person

The thinking person's case for Romney, murmured by many of his backers, amounts to this: Vote for Mitt, you know he doesn't believe a word he says.

- Ross Douthat

topic: Thinking Person

If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.

- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

topic: Thinking, Interesting, Brain, Thinking Person

I'm not going out and hitting a 95-mph fastball where I can't see the stitches. I'm not on a professional football team looking to tackle a fullback who is built like solid wood. I'm a thinking person, and I've been blessed with the ability to see some things and talk about them in a way that registers in a humorous and funny way.

- Bill Cosby

topic: Thanksgiving, Football, Team, Football Team, Thinking Person

It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.

- George Orwell

topic: Thinking, Persons, Thinking Person

To persuade thinking persons in Eastern Europe that Central American Marxists - the Sandinistas, the guerillas in El Salvador - are in absurd and tragic error is not difficult. Poles and Czechs and Hungarians can hardly believe, after what they experienced under socialism, that other human beings would fall for the same bundle of lies, half-truths, and distortions. Sadly, however, illusion is often sweeter to human taste than reality. The last marxist in the world will probably be an American nun.

- Michael Novak

topic: War, Lying, Believe, Hungarians, Eastern Europe

I think that if you're a thinking person you should always be trying to learn something new.

- Matt Taibbi

topic: Thinking, Trying, Something New, Thinking Person

We believe we can train any intelligent, quick thinking person to be a trader. We feel traders are made, not born.

- Jeff Yass

topic: Believe, Intelligent, Thinking, Quick Thinking, Thinking Person

For any thinking person, it (perpetual happiness) is untenable. If you're a thinking person, your upbeat sometimes, said sometimes.

- Ron Suskind

topic: Thinking, Sometimes, Upbeat, Thinking Person

Any thinking person is qualified to be a forecaster, and in fact, everybody does it every day.

- Paul Saffo

source: Source: www.sfgate.com

topic: Thinking, Doe, Facts, Thinking Person

The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.

- Albert Schweitzer

topic: Nature, Philosophical, Animal, Moral Ethics, Vegan Health

What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Religious, Atheist, Humility, Atheistic, God Nature

We can't write a serious novel in the 21st century without acknowledging the inescapable self-awareness we're stuck with. The idea we're surrounded by falsehoods and lies. It's hard for the thinking person to believe in narratives. And yet we want some place to invest our belief.

- Michael Helm

topic: Lying, Believe, Writing, Thinking Person

The gravest error a thinking person can make is to believe that one particular version of history is absolute fact. History is recorded by a series of observers, none of whom is impartial. The facts are distorted by sheer passage of time and thousands of years of humanity's dark ages, deliberate misrepresentations by religious sects, and the inevitable corruption that comes from an accumulation of careless mistakes. The wise person, then, views history as a set of lessons to be learned, choices and ramifications to be considered and discussed, and mistakes that should never again be made.

- Frank Herbert

topic: Wise, Religious, Mistake, Dark Ages, Wise Person

I've always been kind of a strategic thinking person - I love sports for instance, but my interest in sports is 'cause I love watching strategy in action or playing it. I'm not into the drama so much, of the physical action. I'm interested in the coach and how he's strategizing.

- Robert Greene

source: Source: dilanka.cc

topic: Sports, Drama, Thinking, Strategic Thinking, Thinking Person

When you're an actress you are in a very specific position, cerebrally, I would think you know. You are a thinking person but you are in a certain perception of the world between really being conceptual and completely stupid. So you are in between, with a lot of intuition and instinct. And that's not completely being intellectual because I think intuition is more blurred. It comes from intuition. Instinct. More than really reasoning.

- Isabelle Huppert

source: Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

topic: Stupid, Thinking, Intellectual, Perception Of The World, Thinking Person

And I'll tell you another thing, you won't find any candidate that supports prayer in school and gay marriage. For that reason alone, people should vote for an independent-thinking person.

- Kinky Friedman

topic: Prayer, School, Independent, Independent Thinking, Prayer In School

I see in Nature a magnificent structure... that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility.

- Albert Einstein

source: Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.446, Princeton University Press

topic: Humility, Thinking, Feelings, Thinking Person

There are dimensions to me that are not just the thinking person, but the person who is much richer, the person who has other emotional experiences, psychological experiences, these experiences also enrich me.

- George Coyne

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Thinking Person

The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannotbe explored.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Happiness, Thinking, Equanimity, Thinking Person

When you think of it, really there are four fundamental questions of life. Youve asked them, Ive asked them, every thinking person asks them. They boil down to this; origin, meaning, morality and destiny. How did I come into being? What brings life meaning? How do I know right from wrong? Where am I headed after I die?

- Ravi Zacharias

topic: Destiny, Thinking, Fundamentals, Thinking Person

Life teaches much, but to all thinking persons it brings ever closer the will of God - not because their faculties decline, but on the contrary, because they increase.

- Madame de Stael

topic: God, Thinking, Increase, Life Teaches, Thinking Person

...life is a gift bestowed without anyone asking for it; that the thinking person has a philosophical duty to examine both the nature of life and the conditions it comes with; and that if this person decides to renounce the gift no one asks for, it is the moral and human duty to act on the consequences of that decision.

- Julian Barnes

topic: Philosophical, Thinking, Decision, Life Is A Gift, Thinking Person

Every thinking person fears nuclear war, and every technological state plans for it. Everyone knows it is madness, and every nation has an excuse

- Carl Sagan

source: Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.349, Ballantine Books

topic: Thinking Person

If we could look through the skull into the brain of a consciously thinking person, and if the place of optimal excitability were luminous, then we should see playing over the cerebral surface, a bright spot with fantastic, waving borders constantly fluctuating in size and form, surrounded by a darkness more or less deep, covering the rest of the hemisphere.

- Ivan Pavlov

topic: Thinking, Skulls, Darkness, Cerebral, Thinking Person

Everyone does what they can to avoid thinking. Laziness is the most basic human trait. People don't want to think -- they can't make the connection between entertainment and thought, they want immediate kicks. People will not be human until they get pleasure from thought. Only a thinking person can be a full person.

- Vera Chytilova

topic: Thinking, People, Connections, Thinking Person

Erudite and entertaining, Max Anderson is the perfect tour guide to the world of art. The Quality Instinct is both educational and enlightening from start to finish, the thinking person's guide to museums. This is a must-read for anyone who wants to truly understand what makes a masterpiece.

- Daniel Silva

topic: Art, Educational, Thinking, Thinking Person, Tour Guides