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

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

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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

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

“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

“Fear breeds superstition.”
― Baruch Spinoza

“BIG THINKERS OFTEN DO BIG THINGS. SMALL THINKERS NEVER DO BIG THINGS.”
― Karen Blumenthal, Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different: A Biography

“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

“When you make the mistake of bringing top tier thinking and discussions to average thinkers, you pay the price of looking stupid”
― Daniel Derrick Mwesigye

“Being an author is the most important job in the entire world. Without us you wouldn't know anything about God, Jesus or all the prophets that walked this earth. Without us you wouldn't know the purpose of life and how to behave or live. Without us you would be lost. Writing is what saves us all.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Every individual has a unique frame of reference. What works for someone might not work for you.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“The country will be created and run by thinkers and intelligents it can"t be run by a group of tribal and narrowed minds, when the thinker marginalized the nation will remain under the control of occupiers forever.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih