Quotes of Thinker - somelinesforyou

“ The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers. ”

- Denis Diderot

“ Be a "how" thinker, not an "if" thinker. ”

- Unknown

“ 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

“ Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor. ”

- Soren Kierkegaard

“ Slow thinkers are part of the game too. Some of these slow thinkers can hit a ball a long way. ”

- Alvin Dark

“ The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how.". ”

- Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

“ We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end. ”

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

“ Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it. ”

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

“ Thinkers prepare the revolution and bandits carry it out. ”

- Mariano Azuela

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

- William James

“ The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion — these are the most valuable coin of the thinker at work. ”

- Jerome S. Bruner

“ The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private. ”

- Unknown

“ When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers. ”

- Walter Lippmann

“ A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist. ”

- Sophocles

“ Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much. ”

- George Santayana

“ And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch. ”

- Bible

“ There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. ”

- William James

“ Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all other philosophers are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself. ”

- H.L. Mencken

“ What every genuine philosopher craves most is praise — although the philosophers generally call it "recognition"! ”

- William James

“ Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make. ”

- Gaston Bachelard

“ The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible. ”

- Anonymous

“ Hesitancy in judgment is the only true mark of the thinker. ”

- Dagobert D. Runes

“ One learns that the opinions formulated by the pens of our great thinkers over the centuries are strange indeed. ”

- Jacques Lacan

“ Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare. ”

- Harriet Martineau

“ The time for thinkers has come. ”

- Mary Baker Eddy

“ 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

“ It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism. ”

- H.P. Lovecraft

“ The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution. ”

- Bertrand Russell
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