Deep Thinker Quotes

• Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Misunderstood, Thinker, Being Misunderstood

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Beyond Good and Evil”, p.181, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• I'm a deep thinker when it comes to shallow no brainers.

  Dane Cook

  Shallow, Thinker, No Brainer

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• George Harrison was known as the quiet Beatle. Quiet people are often quiet because they are deep thinkers.

  Ray Comfort

  Quiet People, Thinker, Known

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• Dave [Holland] plays the way he wants to play. And it's usually what's needed. You know, Dave is such a deep thinker. You can't tell him too much, else it might spoil his spirit, you know.

  Miles Davis

  Play, Want, Might

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• I've always been a deep thinker. Since I was a kid I was delving into the very depths of why we existed, often driving my parents crazy with unanswerable questions.

  Missy Higgins

  Crazy, Kids, Parent

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• 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.

  Thomas Sowell

  War, Selfish, Ignorance

  Thomas Sowell (1987). “Compassion Versus Guilt and Other Essays”, William Morrow

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• If true happiness depended on the thoughts of man, then all philosophers and deep thinkers would be filled to overflowing with it.

  Sadhu Sundar Singh

  Men, Would Be, Philosopher

  Sadhu Sundar Singh (2013). “At The Master's Feet”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• Ever since I was a kid, I've always been a real deep thinker and stuff.

  Billy Ray Cyrus

  Real, Kids, Stuff

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• Genius everywhere is one. In the Orient and in the Occident the deep thinkers are kin, the poets are cousins, the pioneers of the spirit are the messengers of peace and good will to the world. Their works are the open highways between nations, and they themselves are the ever living guardians and guides.

  Ameen Rihani

  Cousin, World, Messengers

  Ameen Rihani (2016). “The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition”, p.379, Syracuse University Press

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• Some people are destined to be deep thinkers. I am not one of those people.

  Jen Lancaster

  People, Thinker, Destined

  Jen Lancaster (2008). “Such a Pretty Fat: One Narcissist's Quest To Discover if Her Life Makes Her Ass Look Big, Or Why Pi e is Not The Answer”, p.220, Penguin

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• I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies.

  Walter Mosley

  Father, Asking Why, Views

  Walter Mosley (2003). “What Next: A Memoir Toward World Peace”, p.12, Black Classic Press

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• I just take the Bible for what it is, I guess, and recognize that I am not a scientist, not trained to be a scientist. I'm not a deep thinker on all of this. I wish I was. I wish I was more knowledgeable, but I'm not a scientist.

  Michele Bachmann

  Wish, Scientist, Knowledgeable

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