Thinker Quotes

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.

Some of the most patriarchal thinkers I know are women. Some of the most feminist thinkers are men.

If I had to choose between a narrow-minded woman or a man who was an enlightened thinker, I would vote for the man.

The creative thinker must stand sufficiently detached from his work.

It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm.

I'm a discursive thinker, so quotation has played an active role in the structure and content of my books from the beginning.

You can't use up creativity, creative thinking builds on itself and increases the creativity of the thinker...You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

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!!!

[James Mattis] is a student of history. He's a strategic thinker.

Conclusion: better to be a thinking monk than a postmodern thinker.

Clearly, Enlightenment thinkers were seeking a God substitute.

Hillary Clinton has a vision, she has knowledge and judgment. She is a strategic thinker, based on her experience and her connection.

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.

I'm a plotter. A thinker, a note-maker, a mapper and a flow-charter. I'm up for using any device that will teach me more about the people I'm writing about and their story.

Fifty years is the long time to think about a thinker's relevance or to think of the relevance of their work to a contemporary period.

Herbert Spencer is little read now. Philosophers do not regard him as a major thinker. Social Darwinism has long been in disrepute.

I'm not at all a linear thinker. I know the feeling I want to convey, but the form is what I struggle to find. I'm sure I'd fail if I tried to write a grant proposal or a book proposal.

Our century is a brutal thinker.

To my mind [ Jonathan Edwards] is an interesting figure because he is both a canonical Reformed thinker, and yet also someone that pushed the envelope in a number of key areas of theology.

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.

Coleridge cried; "O God, how glorious it is to live!" Renan asks, "O God, when will it be worth while to live?" In Nature we echo the poet; in the world we echo the thinker.

He was a 'how' thinker, not an 'if' thinker.

For most of my life, I was a worrier and an over-thinker. I had pretty bad social anxiety.

[Emerson] was interested not in the bookworm, not even in the thinker, only in Man Thinking.

You can think negatively or positively. If you are a positive thinker, you will base your decisions on faith rather than fear.

For the sensory thinker, the world of the mind bears a direct physical resemblance to the world outside.

When everybody has access to an avalanche of information, becoming a master thinker is very important in your life-long security.

I don't consider myself to be that radical a thinker.

Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world?

Every philosophical thinker hails it [The Origin of Species] as a veritable Whitworth gun in the armoury of liberalism.

The thinker as reader reads what has been written. He wears the words he reads to look upon Within his being.

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.

The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker can feel himself lonely, most positively furthered, and most richly fed

The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful, he must obey his impulse.

Negative thinkers always have a negative vision.

Belief is a wonderful way to pass the time until the facts come in.

If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.

Be a critical thinker too sometimes. Look in to your heart and give your self permission to ask your mind and question the teachings that doesn't resonate with the wisdom of your soul.

Salvation of human life requires disclosure of truth through reason, surpassing bigotry.

Smartness without wisdom is stupidity.

Free thinker walks on shortcuts among wisdoms.

As a species, wise, harmonious progress is our mission.

I am the thread of unification that goes through humans of all religions, cultures and ideologies while reinforcing their innate sense of one humanity.

I work to make human beings out of human bodies. I work to make conscience out of mindlessness. I work to make Gods out of obedient worshippers.

Give me your soul and I will give you a unified humanity replete with courage, conscience and compassion.

Give me your soul and I will give you a unified humanity.

Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.

A thinker will die, but his profound ideas have wings that fly forever.

A philosopher is a deep thinker and a meticulous observer of nature and events that reveal the beauty, truth, and meaning of existence.

God lives in and through the human mind, and not in any church, synagogue, temple or mosque.