Top 100 Thinker Quotes
#1. What else could I be? If I were a mono-thinker, I probably wouldn't be an insomniac. How is a poly-thinker supposed to fall asleep, and more importantly, stay asleep, when thoughts just won't stop darting! darting! darting! through my head?
Rachel Cohn
#3. Every great thinker is someone else's moron.
Umberto Eco
#5. Attitude is the first quality that marks the successful man. If he has a positive attitude and is a positive thinker, who likes challenges and difficult situations, then he has half his success achieved.
John C. Maxwell
#6. Those who cannot attack the thought, instead attack the thinker.
Paul Valery
#7. The stranger's way of looking at things, the eye of a man who does not recognize, who is beyond this world, the eye as frontier between being & non-being - belongs to the thinker. It is also the eye of a dying man, a man losing recognition.
Paul Valery
#8. Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.
IO Tillett Wright
#10. An extraordinarily precocious mind, a political free thinker, who towered above his political contemporaries in Germany.
Franz Mehring
#11. What characterizes a really great thinker is that they misrecognize the basic dimension of their own breakthrough.
Slavoj Zizek
#12. When, despite considerable intelligence, a thinker cannot think straight, it becomes very likely that he cannot face his thoughts.
J. Budziszewski
#13. He was a stylist, not a thinker. He spent time trying to say things in as complicated a way as possible.
Peter Heather
#14. But the disappearance of the effort to let go is precisely the disappearance of the separate thinker, of the ego trying to watch the mind without interfering.
Alan Watts
#15. Ownership of thought depends on the thinker not subordinating himself to a 'ruling thought'. This is particularly difficult, argues Stirner, ... for language itself is a network of 'fixed ideas'. Truths emerge only when language is reworked and possessed individually.
John Carroll
#16. I think I've done a good job in the industry from the standpoint of employee morale and customer satisfaction, and as an innovative thinker in tech.
David Duffield
#17. My mother was a very positive thinker; she was always active, always doing something good.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#18. The thinker who should turn aside from slang would resemble a surgeon who should avert his face from an ulcer or a wart. He would be like a philologist refusing to examine a fact in language, a philosopher hesitating to scrutinize a fact in humanity.
Victor Hugo
#19. If we had to play Augusta National in one hour, the best athlete would win the Masters. But as it is, they give us time to hang ourselves. Every swing is a 'thought shot'. So instead of the best athlete, you end up with the best thinker as the winner.
Joe Inman
#20. [Emerson] was interested not in the bookworm, not even in the thinker, only in Man Thinking.
Robert D. Richardson
#21. Man is a slow, sloppy, and brilliant thinker; computers are fast, accurate, and stupid.
John Pfeiffer
#23. What matters is that she becomes an engaged lifelong learner and an adaptable thinker who can thrive in any environment and is comfortable dealing with other cultures.
Ben Green
#24. Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.
Robert Greene
#25. 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
#26. They're the sort of dozy bastards who don't think beyond their next pot of ale, but Thomas does, Thomas is a two-pot thinker, he is.
Bernard Cornwell
#27. Poor Arthur, you're not really cut out for this life, are you?" "You call this life?" "You're beginning to sound like Marvin." "Marvin's the clearest thinker I know.
Douglas Adams
#28. The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand. The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.
Paul Ryan
#29. You can kill a thinker, but you can't kill the thought.
Terry Hayes
#30. The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's.
Martin H. Fischer
#31. A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure.
Hugh Kingsmill
#32. The greatest thinker we can ever think of is Jesus Christ. He knew how to make His contenders ponder in awe
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#33. She was braver than I, she always had been. I cared too much for the opinion of others, she cared not a whit. I was cautious, she was brash. I was a thinker, she was a doer. I kindled fires, she spread them. And right then and ever after, I saw how cunning
Sue Monk Kidd
#34. But one must not think ill of the paradox, for the paradox is the passion of thought, and the thinker without the paradox is like the lover without passion: a mediocre fellow.
Soren Kierkegaard
#35. It takes me time to realize things; I'm a speedy person but a slow thinker.
Julie Christie
#36. The writer is editor, marketer, blogger, reader, thinker, designer, publisher, public speaker, budget-maker, contract reader, trouble-shooter, coffee-hound, liver-pickler, shame-farmer, god, devil, gibbering protozoa.
Chuck Wendig
#37. I say "Out" to every negative thought that comes to my mind. No person, place, or thing has any power over me, for I am the only thinker in my mind. I create my own reality and everyone in it.
Louise L. Hay
#38. I don't consider myself to be that radical a thinker.
Steven Pinker
#39. He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher ... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
Douglas Adams
#40. Great American thinker and philosopher Earl Nightingale said, "If you spend one extra hour each day in the study of your chosen field, you'll be a national expert in five years or less." What do you want to be an expert in?
Abby Beale
#41. Just look at life with more playful eyes. Don't be serious. Seriousness becomes like a blindness. Don't pretend to be a thinker, a philosopher. Just simply be a human being. The whole world is showering its joy on you in so many ways, but you are too serious, you cannot open your heart.
Osho
#42. As a thinker, and most writers would consider themselves thinkers, your competition is not only the whole world, but it's also the people of the past, and the people of the future. And the people of the future are the dangerous ones, because you'll never know how good they are.
Jarod Kintz
#43. The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God. Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
Anthony Trollope
#44. Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril.
John Dewey
#45. thinker sees in his own actions attempts and questionings to obtain information about something or other; success and failure are answers to him first and foremost.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#46. All thinking (is) an effort to make thought escape from the thinker's mind past all obstacles as completely as possible: all society is an attempt to seise and influence and coerce each thought as it appears and force it to yield to another.
Virginia Woolf
#47. The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of attention.
Boris Sidis
#48. If I had to choose between a narrow-minded woman or a man who was an enlightened thinker, I would vote for the man.
Marianne Williamson
#49. The dignity of man is vindicated as much by the thinker and poet as by the statesman and soldier.
James Bryant Conant
#51. When the Spirit illuminates the heart, then a part of the man sees which never saw before; a part of him knows which never knew before, and that with a kind of knowing which the most acute thinker cannot imitate.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#52. It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are the main thing. If they are on the other side then this is a valuable bonus.
Terry Pratchett
#53. The profession of being a creative thinker is not so obvious.
David M. Kelley
#54. Once we have found ourselves, we must understand how from time to time to lose
and then to find
ourselves once again: assuming,that is, that we are thinkers. For a thinker it is a drawback to be bound to a single person all the time.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#55. Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#56. I said that if I hadn't been a politician, I'd have liked to be a barrister, or an academic. My beloved wife said: 'You'd be a very good barrister and a hopeless academic.' I said 'Why?' She said: 'Because you're not an original thinker.'
John Bercow
#57. I think that if you're a digital thinker, you can use a digital camera.
Abbas Kiarostami
#58. I'll bet every great thinker and leader we've got
Could see all kinds of things other people could not!
So then why get upset if somebody like me
Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
Al Yankovic
#59. Trin Tragula - for that was his name - was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. And
Douglas Adams
#60. I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker.
Richard Steele
#62. The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE.
Winston S. Churchill
#63. Profound minds are the most likely to think lightly of the resources of human reason, and it is the superficial thinker who is generally strongest in every kind of unbelief.
Humphry Davy
#64. As a crew, G.O.O.D. Music is taking it to levels that really haven't been done collectively. Kanye is someone who knows how to make classic albums, a true thinker. He got me in the mindset of being a true thinker and always planning out every move you got going.
Big Sean
#65. On the heights it is warmer than people in the valley suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#66. A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions
as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#67. Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it
Ernest Holmes
#68. The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
Bertrand Russell
#69. Whenever a great thinker wants to make of himself a binding institution for future mankind, one may be certain that he is past the peak of his powers and is very weary, very close to the setting of his sun.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#70. The biggest thinker that's influenced my feminism is definitely Bell Hooks, who's a feminist cultural critic, because of her accessibility but also just because she's a genius.
Jessica Valenti
#71. There is nothing to fear from truth ... Being truthful is essential to being an independent thinker and obtaining greater understanding of what is right.
Ray Dalio
#72. I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious of need, responsibility of thinking-speaking with truth. I do not go about hunting 'truths.'
Laura Riding
#73. My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.
Thomas Hardy
#75. In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#76. Maimonides is the most influential Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages, and quite possibly of all time.
David Zulberg
#77. The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#78. Lucidity of speech is unquestionably one of the surest tests of mental precision ... In my experience a confused talker is never a clear thinker.
David Lloyd George
#80. The thinker without a paradox is like a lover without a feeling: a paltry mediocrity.
Soren Kierkegaard
#81. Dave [Holland] plays the way he wants to play. And it's usually what's needed. You know, Dave is such a deep thinker. You can't tell him too much, else it might spoil his spirit, you know.
Miles Davis
#82. I'm quite a neurotic thinker, quite an adrenalized person. But after meditation, I felt this beautiful serenity and selfless connection.
Russell Brand
#83. Be a thinker, be a dreamer, be a believer, be a doer, and, above all, be a kind lover.
Debasish Mridha
#84. If you want to become a positive thinker, don't think lack, think abundance, for you and for everyone. Dream big; as bigger as the blue ocean. Become aware of your thoughts and you will be aware of yourself.
Israelmore Ayivor
#85. Words can be borrowed but thoughts can never be stolen. You are a born thinker.
Kunal Narayan Uniyal
#86. You learn almost as much about a thinker from what he reads - in particular, what he likes and what he disdains - as from what he writes himself.
Rodney Ulyate
#87. As a logical thinker, I cannot help thinking, based on the evidence, that many people who exhibit dramatic reactions to bad news involving strangers are hypocrites.
John Elder Robison
#88. Make a list of your friends and determine who is the most positive thinker among them and deliberately cultivate his society.
Norman Vincent Peale
#89. Abhijit Naskar is a self-trained scientist and thinker who discovers the paradigm shifting phenomena of the human mind.
Michael A. Persinger
#90. You say: "I'm a blue sky thinker." Investor thinks: "You have no business model, and you don't know how to ship."
Guy Kawasaki
#91. A thinker can truly think only when there is true freedom of thought.
Debasish Mridha
#92. Looking for the positive does not necessarily mean overlooking faults. being a positive thinker does not mean one has to agree or accept everything. It only means that a person is solution-focused.
Shiv Khera
#93. Are you a thinker, a doer, or a clutch player? The better you are, the greater potential for influence you will have with your people.
John C. Maxwell
#94. I really am a thinker. I don't do things rash. I know some of the things I've said or the way I act seem rash. But I do take ownership of it. I don't say things I don't mean.
Bode Miller
#95. A thinker is a person whose part it is to symbolize time according to his vision and understanding. He has no choice; he thinks as he has to think.
Oswald Spengler
#96. For most of my life, I was a worrier and an over-thinker. I had pretty bad social anxiety.
Rob Corddry
#97. The speculative thinker makes Christianity into theology, instead of recognizing that a living relationship to Christ involves passion, struggle, decision, personal appropriation, and inner transformation.' (Moore's summary of Kierkegaard)
Charles E. Moore
#98. I learned to cross the threshold of my studio with reverence, as though I were entering a shrine set apart for me to become co-creator with the Universal Thinker of all things.
Walter Russell
#100. The tradition of the personal essay is full of self-appointed outcasts. In that tradition, I am not a poet or the press, but an essayist, a citizen thinker.
Eula Biss
