Thinkers Quotes

We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It`s overrun with sheep and conformists.

(March 1997) We use up words like "spiritual" so fast in this culture. Twenty years ago "spiritual" had a distinct meaning. But now there`s a lot of jack-off thinkers who just love to talk about the spiritual. And there is a lot of bogus -- is "bogosity" a word? It should be -- a lot of bogosity in these spiritual seekers. So you have to find another way to express it. I just call it "how I fit.

A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses.

Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists.

There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.

Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.

I`m not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called "scientific" mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.

Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.

Slow thinkers are part of the game too. Some of these slow thinkers can hit a ball a long way.

Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.

I believe that our very survival depends upon us becoming better systems thinkers.

It is important to remember that some of the most serious thinkers once thought that democracy was not compatible with the cultures of Germany, Italy, Japan, Latin America and Russia.

Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.

By getting up early in the morning one also gets more time at his disposal for work as compared to late-risers. Scholar and thinkers get up early in the morning and contemplate.

If they start doing this as a freshman, think of how skilled they will be and what great thinkers they will be.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.