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

“Nothing is as it seems, but something is everything it is made out to be.”
― Carroll Bryant

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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

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

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

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

“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

“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

“Fear breeds superstition.”
― Baruch Spinoza

“«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

“I know I can’t drive a truck. And I can’t run a bank. And I can’t count. And I can’t lead a movement. But I can f*ck up your mind.”
― James Baldwin

“I can not learn Philosophy and I can not take a glimpse of Wisdom all alone and by myself. All together we philosophize, because this is the best way to do it; nay, this is the only way to do it. Of course, other thinkers cannot teach me what I already know, but they can help me unlearn what I thought I knew or see what I haven’t seen clearly yet. As a solitary thinker, I would be a mere listener of the echo of my convictions.”
― Giannis Delimitsos

“People will fly in the face of facts when the facts are not aligned with their desires”
― Dr Janki Santoke, How Do You Know What You Know?: Manage Thoughts, Manage Life

“Only the boundaries of your inventive thought processes can hinder your potential for achievement.”
― Ephantus Mwenda Njagi, The Girl From America

“Everything is complex for those who think, and no doubt thought itself takes delight in making things yet more complex.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“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