Thinker Quotes

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. (Douglas Adams)
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution. View quote
Bertrand Russell
I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador - an adventurer, if you want it translated - with all the curiosity, daring, and tenacity characteristic of a man of this sort. View quote
Sigmund Freud
No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon, the least confused thinker its Socrates, the least commonplace poet its Shakespeare . View quote
George Bernard Shaw
But 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. And the fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism. View quote
Paul Ryan
The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world. View quote
Malcolm Gladwell
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead. View quote
John Stuart Mill
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
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. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
Many a man fails to become a thinker for the sole reason that his memory is too good. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
I'm not on all the time. I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker. View quote
Keenen Ivory Wayans
I wouldn't say I was a born writer; I'm a born thinker. View quote
John Lennon
Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril and no one can wholly predict what will emerge in its place. View quote
John Dewey
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. View quote
Modest Mussorgsky
The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame. View quote
W. E. B. Du Bois
It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
Is there a thinker apart from thought? View quote
Jiddu Krishnamurti
My physics has been extremely mainstream, ... It's not true that I'm some sort of a [radical thinker], not at all. View quote
Leonard Susskind
Herbert Spencer is little read now. Philosophers do not regard him as a major thinker. Social Darwinism has long been in disrepute. View quote
Peter Singer
I always tell my students that Malcolm X came both to his spirituality and to his consciousness as a thinker when he had solitude to read. Unfortunately, tragically, like so many young black males, that solitude only came in prison. (Bell hooks)
Man is a conscious, rational thinker and a supra-conscious creator genius. View quote
Pitirim Sorokin
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty. View quote
Pablo Neruda
But Zarathustra made it clear in which direction the answer lay; it is towards the artist-psychologist, the intuitional thinker. There are very few such men in the world's literature; the great artists are not thinkers, the great thinkers are seldom artists. View quote
Colin Wilson
The most extravagant idea that can be born in the head of a political thinker is to believe that it suffices for people to enter, weapons in hand, among a foreign people and expect to have its laws and constitution embraced. No one loves armed missionaries; the first lesson of nature and prudence is to repulse them as enemies. View quote
Maximilien Robespierre