(58 quotes found)
“He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher...or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.”
Douglas Adams
“If only our great thinkers could learn to talk, and our great talkers could learn to think”
Ashleigh Brilliant
“Only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.”
Anton Chekhov
“I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.”
Anthony Burgess
“A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti
“A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere the careless, the most stupid thinker”
David Hume
“The Germans -- once they were called the nation of thinkers: do they still think at all? Nowadays the Germans are bored with intellect, the Germans mistrust intellect, politics devours all seriousness for really intellectual things. . .”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.”
Chauncey Depew
“Boy, can't you feel the ghosts of a century and a half of great thinkers, especially Twain?”
Mark Twain
