Best Thinker Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 6

“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.”

Enough Mistake Sun Loneliness Lovers Mountain Tragedy Cease Thinker Pathetic

Book:Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke

Source: Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke

“One might feel that, at my age, I should look on life with more gravity. After all, I've been privileged to listen, firsthand, tosome of the most profound thinkers of my daywho were all beset by gloom over the condition the world had gotten into. Then why can't I view it with anything but amusement?”

Thinking World Feels Should Looks Might Age Funny Views Conditions Profound Thoughtful Thinker Gravity Privileged Amusement Gloom

Author:Anita Loos

“It would much conduce to the public benefit, if, instead of discouraging free-thinking, there was erected in the midst of this free country a dianoetic academy, or seminary for free-thinkers, provided with retired chambers, and galleries, and shady walks and groves, where, after seven years spent in silence and meditation, a man might commence a genuine free-thinker, and from that time forward, have license to think what he pleased, and a badge to distinguish him from counterfeits.”

Source: Alciphron: Or, The Minute Philosopher. In Seven Dialogues. Containing an Apology for the Christian Religion Against Those who are Called Free-thinkers ...

“If only the sun-drenched celebrities are being noticed and worshiped, then our children are going to have a tough time seeing the value in the shadows, where the thinkers, probers and scientists are keeping society together.”

Ifs Children Together Values Sun Seeing Shadow Tough Scientist Our Children Thinker Tough Times

Author:Rita Dove

“Missionaries, whether of philosophy or religion, rarely make rapid way, unless their preachings fall in with the prepossessions ofthe multitude of shallow thinkers, or can be made to serve as a stalking-horse for the promotion of the practical aims of the still larger multitude, who do not profess to think much, but are quite certain they want a great deal.”

Thinking Way Want Made Stills Philosophy Certain Fall Deals Horse Aim Practicals Thinker Preaching Multitudes Shallow Rapids Promotion Stalking

Author:Thomas Huxley

“You have to give credit where credit's due. Steve [Jobs] has been probably the single hardware/software forward-looking thinker and executor in our lifetime as an individual. He's quite a brilliant innovator.”

Giving Has Beens Jobs Individual Lifetime Credit Dues Brilliant Thinker Software Innovators Hardware Executors

Author:Christopher Galvin

“Deep thinkers who look everywhere for the mysterious causes of poverty, ignorance, crime and war need look no further than their own mirrors. We are all born into this world poor and ignorant, and with thoroughly selfish and barbaric impulses. Those of us who turn out any other way do so largely through the efforts of others, who civilized us before we got big enough to do too much damage to the world or ourselves.”

Source: Compassion Versus Guilt and Other Essays

“A crowd of grade-three thinkers, all shouting the same thing, all warming their hands at the fire of their own prejudices, will not thank you for pointing out the contradictions in their beliefs. Man is a gregarious animal, and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way on the side of a hill.”

Men Way Hands Three Belief Enjoy Sides Animal Fire Prejudice Crowds Hills Grades Contradiction Agreement Thinker Cows Pointing Shouting Gregarious

Author:William Golding

“The scientists from Franklin to Morse were clear thinkers and did not produce erroneous theories. The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.”

Thinking Reality Today Clear Produce Theory Scientist Relation Mathematics Structure Experiments Insane Wander Thinker Sane Equations Franklin

Author:Nikola Tesla

“Once we have found ourselves, we must understand how from time to time to lose--and then to find--ourselves once again: assuming,that is, that we are thinkers. For a thinker it is a drawback to be bound to a single person all the time.”

Persons Time Found Loses Personality Assuming Bounds Thinker Single Person Drawbacks

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books?”

People Book Passion Thirds Thinker

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

Should Earth Water Imagine Air Becoming Walking Capacity Flying Thinker Swimming Dreamer Imagine That Load Idle Learn To Fly

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The life of a thinking man will probably be divided into two parts -- the first in which he desires to exterminate modern thinkers, and the second in which he desires to watch them exterminating each other. ... Suppose, for instance, there is an old story and a new skeptic who is skeptical of the story. We have only to wait a little while for a yet newer skeptic who is skeptical of the skeptic. He will probably find the old notion actually a help in his new notion. This process is an abstract truth applying to anything, apart from agreement or disagreement.”

“It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed.”

Want Mind Made School Christianity Movement Sincere Thinker Optimist Pessimist Free Thinkers

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“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.”

Two Fine Giants Rough Thinker Berlioz

Author:Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky

“Our century is a brutal thinker.”

Century Thinker Brutal

Author:Pierre-Jean de Beranger

“Behind the October Revolution there are more influential personalities than the thinkers and executors of Marxism.”

Behinds Revolution Personality Communism Thinker Marxism Influential October October Revolution Executors

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“Each state of the human mind has some parable in the physical creation by which it is shadowed forth; nor is it only artists and poets, but even the most abstract thinkers that have drawn from this source. Lively activity we name fire; time is a stream that rolls on, sweeping all before it; eternity is a circle; a mystery is hid in midnight gloom, and truth dwells in the sun. Nay, I begin to believe that even the future destiny of the human race is prefigured in the dark oracular utterances of bodily creation.”

Source: Works

“To the thinker, the most trifling external object often suggests ideas, which, like Homer's chain, extend, link after link, from earth to heaven.”

Ideas Earth Heaven Objects Chains Links Thinker Trifling

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Just look at life with more playful eyes. Don't be serious. Seriousness becomes like a blindness. Don't pretend to be a thinker, a philosopher. Just simply be a human being. The whole world is showering its joy on you in so many ways, but if you are too serious, you cannot open your heart.”

Ifs World Way Life Humans Looks Heart Whole Eye Joy Human Beings Serious Philosopher Whole World Thinker Blindness Seriousness Open Your Heart

Author:Rajneesh

“But the disappearance of the effort to let go is precisely the disappearance of the separate thinker, of the ego trying to watch the mind without interfering.”

Trying Mind Effort Watches Letting Go Ego Thinker Interfere Disappearance

Book:This is It, and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience

Source: This is It, and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience

“Early Chinese thinkers had taken variety at face value. They had favored diversification and collected anomalies instead of trying to explain them away.”

Trying Faces Values Taken Variety Chinese Thinker Anomalies Diversification Face Value

Author:Paul Feyerabend

“The most agreeable of all companions is a simple, frank man, without any high pretensions to an oppressive greatness; one who loves life, and understands the use of it; obliging alike at all hours; above all, of a golden temper and steadfast as an anchor. For such an one we gladly exchange the greatest genius, the most brilliant wit, the profoundest thinker.”

Men Use Hours Simple Greatness Genius Brilliant Wit Golden Love Life Companion Thinker Temper Frank Anchors Pretension Steadfast

Author:Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

“Every new generation in its hour of dawn, filled with the dreams of youth, its thirsts, intoxications and enthusiasms, thinks itself called upon to impel humanity towards heights unmeasured, believes itself an appointed pathfinder, a thinker of thoughts, a doer of deeds greater than any of those which came before. Every new generation desires beauty, but a beauty all its own.”

Thinking Believe Dream Desire Humanity Hours Greater Generations Youth Filled Deeds Enthusiasm Dawn Height Thinker Thirst New Generation Doers Intoxication

Author:Ignacy Jan Paderewski

“You don't hurry a thinker, and you don't talk to him when he's thinking. It's just inconsiderate.”

Thinking Thinker Inconsiderate

Book:Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings

Source: Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings

“You can have a team of unconventional thinkers, as well as conventional thinkers. If you don't have the support of others you cannot achieve anything altogether on your own. It's like a cry in the wilderness. In each instance there were others who could see the same thing, and there were others who could not. It's an obvious difference we see in those who you might say have a bird's eye view, and those who have a worm's eye view. I've come to realize that we all have a different mind set, we all see things differently, and that's what the human condition is really all about.”

“Some thinkers would feel sorely hampered if at liberty to use no forms but such as existed in nature, or to invent nothing save in accordance with the laws of the world of the senses; but it must not therefore be imagined that they desire escape from the region of law.”

Ifs World Feels Use Form Law Desire Liberty Senses Regions Thinker

Book:The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more

Source: The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more

“If we allow ourselves to dwell on negatives, on hurts, on mistreatments, we will be negative thinkers. So be open to positive thinking, THINK BIG!”

Ifs Thinking Bigs Hurt Positive Thinking Negative Thinker Think Big Mistreatment

Author:Benjamin Carson

“The church in all ages and among all peoples has been the consistent enemy of the human race. Everywhere and at all times, it has opposed the liberty of thought and expression. It has been the sworn enemy of investigation and intellectual development. It has denied the existence of facts, the tendency of which was to undermine its power. It has always been carrying fagots to the feet of Philosophy. It has erected the gallows for Genius. It has built the dungeon for Thinkers.”