Thinkers Quotes

“Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.”
― Criss Jami

“It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.”
― Albert Camus, Neither Victims Nor Executioners

“If you were born with the ability to change someone’s perspective or emotions, never waste that gift. It is one of the most powerful gifts God can give—the ability to influence.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“All great thinkers are initially ridiculed – and eventually revered.”
― Robin Sharma

“Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Nobody who says as little as he does is as simple as you'd think. It takes a lot to not say a lot, because when you're not talking, you're thinking, and he thinks a lot. My mum and dad talked all the time. Talkers don't think much; their words drown out any possibility of hearing their subconscious asking, Why did you say that? What do you really think?”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Book of Tomorrow

“Only weak thinkers do not love the sky.”
― Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers

“Maybe the end was written right from the beginning."
(P. 1)”
― Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things

“Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or where it will end. There is not a piece of science, but its flank may be turned to-morrow; there is not any literary reputation, not the so-called eternal names of fame, that may not be revised and condemned. The very hopes of man, the thoughts of his heart, the religion of nations, the manner and morals of mankind, are all at the mercy of a new generalization. Generalization is always a new influx of the divinity into the mind. Hence the thrill that attends it.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing but shadows - images in black and grey of what had built up in his soul the day before.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious.”
― Gregory Maguire, A Lion Among Men

“Nothing complements a fast mind better than a slow tongue. And nothing aggravates a slow mind better than a fast tongue.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas.”
― Carl Lotus Becker, The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers

“IF YOU TELL ME WHAT YOU READ I'LL TELL YOU
THE WAY YOU THINK.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“Things were different in the past. People idolized thinkers, philosophers, artists and scientists. Today the world admires CEOs, businessmen and managers. Basically, the people who are rich and successful in terms of wealth. This is why the world today is messed up.”
― Abhaidev, The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit

“I could crawl inside the lyrics and know each note intimately. They would claw at my soul, until I could no longer fight the emotions that took me to a place I couldn't experience. But, it was the possibility that made every verse a heart filled prediction and every beat a direction to follow.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Die Welt ist voller Torheit, Dumpfheit, Inkonsequenz und Ungerechtigkeit. Es gehört viel Mut dazu, diesen nicht das Feld zu räumen.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“To me the great divide is between the talkative and the quiet. Do they just say everything that's on their minds, even before it's on their minds? Sometimes I think I could just turn up my head like a Walkman so what's going on there could be heard by others. But there would still be a difference. For inside the head they are talking to people like them, and I am talking to someone like me: he is quiet and doesn't much like being talked at; he can't conceal how easily he gets bored.”
― James Richardson, Vectors: Aphorisms & Ten-Second Essays

“Science seeks to know… A man of faith seeks to know the Creator… Both seek the same unknowable dimension.”
― Guy Morris, The Image: A Quantum Portal Has Opened

“The latent abundance of your inner most resources matters less. What matter most is the impact you can make with your inner resources and the distinctive footprints you can leave with what is within you. The excuse not to dare is there for everybody. When you see so many people crowded at the entrance, think of the roofing and if the roofing is too high, think of the next door and if the next door is not penetrable, create a door within the wall.”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Did you know that using social media can actually help you to increase your level of thinking?”
― Germany Kent

“What a paradox it is, the sane causes more problems than the insane! It is! The real problems of the world do not come from the insane but, the sane!”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“«Improvvisamente ho capito che non c'è nessuna persona giusta. Non esiste né in terra né in cielo né da nessun'altra parte, puoi starne certa. Esistono soltanto le persone, e in ognuna c'è un pizzico di quella giusta, ma in nessuna c'è tutto quello che ci aspettiamo e speriamo. Nessuna racchiude in sé tutto questo, e non esiste quella certa figura, l'unica, la meravigliosa, la sola che potrà darci la felicità. Esistono soltanto delle persone, e in ognuna ci sono scorie e raggi di luce, tutto…».”
― Sándor Márai, La mujer justa

“Nobody wins at war and fight is the desolation of the oppressor.”
― Ben Jr Grey

“We may think about God as something absolute that nothing bigger is possible to conceive, following St. Anselm’s arguments or other ontological arguments from Aquinas to Descartes and others. If we put aside all the objections to the ontological arguments, the main question remains: How did that something, being the biggest or smallest, come into existence? This way, we move into the absurd territory of “infinite regress.” This paradox is possible to resolve by getting rid of paradigms and by accepting the fact that the Nothing, regardless of being nothing, has an equally important role or a “dimension,” conditionally speaking, as Something has, even if it is the Biggest, Absolute Being, or God. Nothing is also uncreated, unborn; it always was.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“Take care of your thoughts! For what we think about, we bring about. What you seek is seeking you!”
― Constance Delores Burrell

“When thinkers rise, empires are challenged. When they fall silent, tyrants win.”
― Egbearor Favour

“كان ذا تفكير عظيم بمقدار ماكان ذا سلوك منحط. ولعله لم يكن قادراً على إبداع نظريته الرائعة لو كان ذا سلوك اعتيادي وربما كانت انتهازيته المفرطة التي شذ بها عن مفكري زمانه هي التي جعلته يشذ عنهم في التفكير، فالجانبان متلازمان كتلازم الصفات الحسنة والسيئة في الاشياء جميعها.”
― علي الوردي Ali Al-Wardi, منطق ابن خلدون

“A nation that fails to cherish knowledge ensures the quiet departure of its thinkers.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“Thinkers are not here to be loved; they are here to be heard. In an era where fame is manufactured and heroes are fabricated, the intellectual remains one of the last authentic figures.”
― Egbearor Favour