Top 100 The Thinker Quotes
#1. I've always been a deep thinker. Since I was a kid I was delving into the very depths of why we existed, often driving my parents crazy with unanswerable questions.
Missy Higgins
#2. Many people have thought of me as a thinker, as a philosopher, or even as a mystic. Well the truth is that though I have found reality perplexing enough - in fact, I find it gets more perplexing all the time - I never think of myself as a thinker.
Jorge Luis Borges
#3. I spent 22 years in the United States military, so I'm a pretty strategic level thinker.
Allen West
#4. The survival of poor opinions can make a thinker feel as though he is failing humanity.
Criss Jami
#5. Those who put their heart and soul into something bigger than themselves, never die from the psyche of humanity.
Abhijit Naskar
#6. One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#7. He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#8. You have to give credit where credit's due. Steve [Jobs] has been probably the single hardware/software forward-looking thinker and executor in our lifetime as an individual. He's quite a brilliant innovator.
Christopher Galvin
#9. You are a devious woman, Blackthorn,' she said.
'I prefer the term strategic thinker.
Juliet Marillier
#10. The mathematician who is without value to mathematicians, the thinker who is obscure or meaningless to thinkers, the dramatist who fails to move the pit, may be wise, may be eminent, but as an author he has failed.
George Henry Lewes
#11. When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.
Karl Marx
#12. A philosopher is a deep thinker and a meticulous observer of nature and events that reveal the beauty, truth, and meaning of existence.
Debasish Mridha
#13. A possibility thinker notices a problem just long enough to get excited about the solution.
Alan Cohen
#15. Look at things not as they are, but as they can be. Visualization adds value to everything. A big thinker always visualizes what can be done in the future. He isn't stuck with the present
David J. Schwartz
#16. See who is the doubter, who is the thinker. It is the ego. Hold it; the other thoughts will die away - the ego will be left pure. See the source from where the ego arises and abide in it. That is pure consciousness.
Ramana Maharshi
#17. Hayek, in my view, is the leading economic thinker of the 20th century.
Vernon L. Smith
#18. A critical thinker is able to release their emotions and follow only the information, the facts.
Ava Young
#19. The thinker requires exactly the same light as the painter, clear, without direct sunshine, or blinding reflection, and, where possible, from above.
August Wilhelm Von Schlegel
#20. When God lets loose a great thinker on this planet, then all things are at risk. There is not a piece of science but its flank may be turned to-morrow; nor any literary reputation or the so-called eternal names of fame that many not be refused and condemned.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#21. I'm a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments.
Roger Federer
#22. The thinker as reader reads what has been written.
He wears the words he reads to look upon
Within his being ...
Wallace Stevens
#23. To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.
Eckhart Tolle
#24. Books are health food for your brain and dessert for your soul. Books are one of the few proven sources of mental exercise known to man. Reading is a workout for your mind. If your body needs thirty minutes of exercise a day, so does your thinker.
Pat Williams
#25. Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude. It's no coincidence that the desert has been a major part of the visionary or mystical experience from the beginning of time.
Bill Viola
#26. Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#27. 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 work, tending to freeze the new ideas and language into an inflexible, static condition.
Uta Hagen
#28. Ross Perot came and visited Apple several times and visited the Macintosh factory. Ross was a systems thinker.
John Sculley
#29. Lorenz was the charismatic, flamboyant thinker - he didn't conduct a single statistical analysis in his life - while Tinbergen did the nitty-gritty of actual data collection.
Frans De Waal
#31. As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is the superior of any savage race of men; and in one or two high mental qualities she is above the reach of any man, savage or civilized!
Mark Twain
#32. If Hegel had written the whole of his Logic and in the Preface disclosed the fact that it was only a thought-experiment (in which however at many points he had steered clear of many things), he would have been the greatest thinker who ever lived. As it is, he is merely comic.
Soren Kierkegaard
#33. It fills all Space, and what It fills, It is. What It thinks, that It utters; and what It utters, that It hears; and It itself is Thinker, Utterer, Hearer, Thought, Word, Audition; it is the One, and yet the All in All. Ah, the happiness, ah, the happiness of Being!
Edwin A. Abbott
#34. The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.
Jose Bergamin
#35. You are to have implicit confidence in your own ability, knowing that it is the nature of thought to externalize itself in your health and affairs, knowing that you are the thinker.
Ernest Holmes
#36. I'm not a fucking thinker, wisher, dancer, or whiner. I'm a fucking doer. Can't expect God to do it all now, can we? The man's got plenty to do already, I'm just doing my part and cleaning up my side of the room.
Lucian Bane
#37. Man, free thinker!
Do you imagine you alone think in this world where life is blazing forth in all things?
You are free to avail yourself of the forces you command, but the universe has gone missing from your prescriptions.
Gerard De Nerval
#38. When one says to the great Thinker:
"Here is one of thy thoughts: I am thinking it now!" that is a prayer
a word to the big heart from one of its own little hearts.
Look, there is another!
George MacDonald
#39. I just take the Bible for what it is, I guess, and recognize that I am not a scientist, not trained to be a scientist. I'm not a deep thinker on all of this. I wish I was. I wish I was more knowledgeable, but I'm not a scientist.
Michele Bachmann
#41. Tragedy is always a mistake; and the loneliness of the deepest thinker, the widest lover, ceases to be pathetic to us so soon as the sun is high enough above the mountains.
Margaret Fuller
#42. In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.
David Ogilvy
#43. I hate the idea of always having to interpret other people's ideas and thoughts and words, because I'm very independent and, I guess, a free thinker.
Elizabeth Taylor
#44. When a newspaper posed the question, "What's Wrong with the World?" the Catholic thinker G. K. Chesterton reputedly wrote a brief letter in response: "Dear Sirs: I am. Sincerely Yours, G. K. Chesterton." That is the attitude of someone who has grasped the message of Jesus.
Timothy Keller
#45. The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs but goes right to work on the creative how.
Norman Vincent Peale
#46. It is one of the poignant anxieties of the thinker that he sees the shadow resting on the human soul, and that he gropes in darkness without being able to awaken that slumbering Progress.
Victor Hugo
#47. We need to understand that Jesus is a thinker, that this is not a dirty word but an essential work, and that his other attributes do not preclude thought, but only ensure that he is certainly the greatest thinker of the human race: "the most intelligent person who ever lived on earth"
Dallas Willard
#48. For the thinker the world is a thought; for the wit, an image; for the enthusiast, a dream; for the inquirer, truth.
Ludwig Buchner
#49. The doer and the thinker, no allowances for the other, as the failing light illuminates the mercenaries creed.
Jethro Tull
#50. The host of men who stand between a great thinker and the average man are not automatic transmitters. They work on the ideas; perhaps that is why a genius usually hates his disciples.
Walter Lippmann
#51. In Hitler the rare union has taken place between the most acute logical thinker and truly profound philosopher, and the iron man of action ... I follow no leadership but that of Adolf Hitler and of God.
Hermann Goring
#52. "Work" does not exist in a nonliterate world. The primitive hunter or fisherman did no work, any more than does the poet, painter, or thinker of today. Where the whole man is involved there is no work.
Marshall McLuhan
#53. You are the only thinker in
your world and your thought
is creative. Whatever you think
about the other person, you are
also creating in your life.
Joseph Murphy
#54. If a thinker throws off too many unsystematic and rich insights, there is no place to grab onto his thought. The thing he is trying to illuminate seems as elusive as before.
Ernest Becker
#55. I think that my work is easy to understand because I am not a thinker, I am not a ... How can I put it? I write the way I perceive, I guess.
Sharon Olds
#56. The thinkers in their youth are almost always very lonely creatures. . . . The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker can feel himself least lonely, most positively furthered and most richly fed. - WILLIAM JAMES1
Niall Ferguson
#57. No matter how sensible-seeming or wild an idea, the smart thinker asks: Does it work? When put to the test, can its predictions be confirmed? Subjected to such scrutiny, crazy-sounding ideas sometimes find support.
David G. Myers
#58. He looked personable enough, not exactly a great thinker, but definitely the kind of profile you wouldn't mind seeing on your small change.
Terry Pratchett
#59. Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#60. Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.
Venus Williams
#61. Grow to be a creative adult, and you'll develop and inspire others. Grow to be a thinker and you'll be aware of the animlas, the plants, and the fascinating veriety of people in our world.
Michelle Korenfeld
#62. If you are a thinker, you will change the language. You will not use words the way others do.
Gertrude Stein
#63. I'm a positive thinker and actor. I look at a glass; a negative person sees the glass and says: too bad it's half empty ... I look at the same glass and say: Hallelujah!! It's half full!!!
Maya Angelou
#64. The mark of the superior thinker is his or her ability to accurately predict the consequences of doing or not doing something.
Brian Tracy
#65. I'm a visual thinker. Research tells us that only 20 per cent of people think visually. So what about the other 80 per cent? Don't they think in pictures? I mean if you imagine washing and preparing potatoes you visualise the process, right?
Douglas Coupland
#66. But as I wrote the book [Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet], I tried to write it as clearly and directly and passionately as possible just thinking of communicating to readers who might want to learn about this great thinker and be inspired by him as I was.
Jeffrey Rosen
#67. Michael Harris opens the doors and gently guides you into a magic world. Once inside, you can't help but feel mesmerized, eager to see how deep the rabbit hole goes. And no wonder: a major thinker of our time is talking to you about math and so much more, like you've never heard before.
Edward Frenkel
#68. the waking day of a mythically vibrant people, the ancient Greeks, for instance, is in fact more akin to dream than to the day of a sober scientific thinker. If
Friedrich Nietzsche
#69. All power is indeed weak compared with that of the thinker. He sits upon the throne of his Empire of Thought, mightier far than they who wield material sceptres.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#70. George Orwell famously described international sport as 'war minus the shooting'. But for all Orwell's greatness as a thinker, this was one of his least felicitous lines, analogous to 'murder minus the death' or 'life minus the breathing'.
Gideon Haigh
#71. What are the messages that you are entertaining?
Asa Don Brown
#72. To base the unexplainabilty and the immense wonder of nature onto an other miracle (God) is unnecessary and not acceptable for any serious thinker.
[Diary entry, 1971]
Fritz Zwicky
#73. I really believe the most handicapped [person] in the whole world is a negative thinker.
Heather Whitestone
#74. I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.
Karl Jaspers
#75. The writer of Proverbs observed that sharp people sharpen one another, just as iron sharpens iron. If you want to be a sharp thinker, be around sharp people.
John C. Maxwell
#76. Anatoli Tarasov, the guy that created the Soviet style of play, was a visionary. He was a creative thinker. He studied ballet and chess and art and read a lot.
Gabe Polsky
#77. The key to investing in yourself is being able to see your potential, not just your actual value. Being able to visualize your value demonstrates that you are already picking up the skills of a 3D thinker.
Farshad Asl
#78. British Statesman, parliamentary orator and political thinker, Edmund Burke once said, "Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it." This is true to say the least.
Robert Paulson
#79. In America, there are people who don't read science fiction but still think about tomorrow, so it's not only the force of science-fiction that makes you a tomorrow thinker.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#80. The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers.
William Hazlitt
#81. By thinking mostly about everything that has gone wrong, is going wrong, and can possibly go wrong, the thinker is bound to end up in a lousy mental and emotional state.
Gudjon Bergmann
#82. I think I identify more with the smart guy, but most people might take umbrage at that. I like to think of myself as a real thinker, but I suppose people might beg to differ.
Colin Quinn
#83. Real intelligence is a creative use of knowledge, not merely an accumulation of facts. The slow thinker who can finally come up with an idea of his own is more important to the world than a walking encyclopedia who hasn't learned how to use this information productively.
Susan Winebrenner
#84. Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.
Thomas J. Watson Jr.
#85. A thinker reverses roles and sees the perspectives of others.
James Cook
#86. The revolutionary and critical thinker is in a certain way always outside of his society while of course he is at the same time also in it.
Erich Fromm
#87. The ploughman knows how many acres he shall upturn from dawn to sunset: but the thinker knows not what a day may bring forth.
John Lancaster Spalding
#88. 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
#89. The average Vogon will not think twice before doing something so pointlessly hideous to you that you will wish you had never been born - or (if you are a clearer minded thinker) that the Vogon had never been born.
Douglas Adams
#90. Kierkegaard was by far the most profound thinker of the last century. Kierkegaard was a saint.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#92. Giorgio Agamben is possibly the most delicate and probing thinker since Walter Benjamin.
Avital Ronell
#93. The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.
Jerome Bruner
#94. Steinitz was a thinker worthy of a seat in the halls of a university. A player, as the world believed he was, he was not; his studious temperament made that impossible; and thus he was conquered by a player and in the end little valued by the world, he died.
Emanuel Lasker
#96. Somewhere along the line, I conditioned myself to be a quick thinker. I take a step back and try to assess the situation, then make the best decision possible at the moment.
Jonathan Sadowski
#97. In the last century the Arab thinker Jamal al-Afghani wrote: 'Every Muslim is sick and his only remedy is in the Koran.' Unfortunately the sickness gets worse the more the remedy is taken.
Conor Cruise O'Brien
#98. To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.
Ayn Rand
#99. If you're an original thinker, you are going get told 'no' a lot, and you have to be able to hear 'no' many times from the bankers and trust that at some point, someone is going to recognize that you are an artist and not a can of soda.
Nick Offerman
#100. The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.
Richard Adams
