Thinker Quotations

No, I try not to be a negative thinker.

There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.

We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers.

Jesus Christ to me, is probably the most compassionate and revolutionary thinker of all time.

The style of the Bible in general is singularly adapted to men of every class and grade of culture, affording the child the simple nourishment for its religious wants, and the profoundest thinker inexhaustible matter of study.

Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.

Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.

For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker.

The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.

I'm not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years.

In Henry Adams, I discovered not only the prototype of the modern thinker but also someone who is more interesting: a viper-toothed, puling, supercilious crank, thwarted in ambition, aging gracelessly, mad at the cosmos, and ashamed of his own jejune ideals. He is nevertheless very dear to me.

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

I wouldn't say I'm a very original thinker, but if I have a good experience with something, I'll want to take it further or adapt it in some way.

I don't consider myself to be that radical a thinker.

Only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.

I wouldn't dare speculate why. I know he's a good thinker and he's a man of conviction.

Richard is an outstanding leader and strategic thinker who has the experience and vision to grasp the challenges and opportunities facing BBC Children's. I am confident he will build the output and reputation of the department both nationally and internationally.

She is a talker and a thinker more than a singer or performer. And she has an unusually strong sense of humor.

I'm a thinker not a talker.

No earnest thinker is a plagiarist pure and simple. He will never borrow from others that which he has not already, more or less, thought out for himself.

Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers... that is a small population.

Greenspan is an orthodox thinker in most ways, but you have give him credit for questioning consensus thinking.

I don't think age is at all relevant. He's a creative thinker, a lateral thinker and he's always looking for opportunities. He's prepared to take a risk.

We are extremely pleased that the President has nominated Mike Griffin to be NASA Administrator ... Dr. Griffin has long been a resource to the Science Committee, both as a public witness and in providing private counsel. He has broad expertise, knows NASA inside and out, and is an imaginative and creative thinker and leader. He is also known for his candor and directness. We look very forward to working with Dr. Griffin at this critical time for NASA.

I'm a mad thinker in general. I think about everything, all the time. Especially when I write music, a lot of the influences come from personal experiences or from being on the outside looking in, being that person who witnessed things that stuck with me throughout my life.

It is the hardest thing in the world to be a good thinker without being a good self examiner.

He's a thinker in all accounts. He's a guy that's made solid decisions in his life, and he has a great future, whether it's basketball or otherwise.

Jerry is a strategic and analytical thinker who could be the chairman to pull GM out of this crisis.

Mike analyzes everything. He works at his trade. He came into it new, and spent countless hours learning the craft, talking with people around the league to find out what it is he needs to do, and given that opportunity, how he would approach being a head coach. He's very detailed in his preparation. Mike's a very deep thinker and very passionate about the game, and those are two pretty good qualities to become a head coach.

The profession of being a creative thinker is not so obvious.

I am not an original thinker-but I am an original listener.)

If only our great thinkers could learn to talk, and our great talkers could learn to think.

I'm not my thoughts, I'm the thinker who has those thoughts.

He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.

Tom has done an outstanding job as a chairman of our Government Reform Committee, ... He is a deliberate thinker with a knack for details. So I'm anxious to see the good work that he will do.

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

You can't be a good writer without being a good thinker.

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

I was not a public - I was not a thinker. I was a doer.

I feel that I've often pointed out that there are countless aspects of life and nature that scientists and scientific thinkers cannot explain. Why the universe is accelerating in its expansion and what came before the Big Bang serve as compelling examples. The process of science provides a way to seek answers to those questions.

I'm not a great deep political thinker.

Better readers are better thinkers.

Despite the fact that we have spent gazillions of dollars in schools on technology, it's still just a leap of faith that kids are better educated because of that. Students need to have some opportunity to digest material serially, like reading a book from end to end. A tiny screen might stop you from being an analytic thinker 'cause you just can't see enough of a thing at once.

I've been a free thinker all my life. Frankly, I'd agree with 95 per cent of what Peter has put forward, but then his adversaries would probably agree with 90 per cent.

The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

I think my writing was innate. Being so painfully shy and introverted as a child, as well as an extreme thinker with a hyperactive imagination, it seems befitting. It became such a powerful passion early on in life.

He's very mature for his age, a quick thinker and quick to act.

Gen. Pace has shown himself to be a brilliant thinker and an inspiring leader,

The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers.

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere the careless, the most stupid thinker

A new thinker is only one who does not know what the old thinkers have thought

The mysteries of creation are marvelous. When two persons meet at any time or place, the differences between them are patent. Their forms and manners differ. They differ in their cleverness and intelligence. Their opinions also vary. Without understanding what underlies these differences, the materialist thinker emphasizes the differences. Today, a growing number of intellectuals, ignoring the unity that underlies the diversity, propagate the cult of differences.  The good persons who realize the unity behind the apparent diversity are dwindling in numbers from day to day.  This is highly unfortunate.

A thinker reverses roles and sees the perspectives of others.

The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.

Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation.

Let's teach our children to be thinkers.

The universe can best be pictured as consisting of pure thought, the thought of what for want of a better word we must describe as a mathematical thinker.

It's a non-story. Steve is a big picture thinker and Jerry is a detailed guy and they are both very, very intelligent. There is every expectation that they are going to be able to work very well together.

As a crew, G.O.O.D. Music is taking it to levels that really haven't been done collectively. Kanye is someone who knows how to make classic albums, a true thinker. He got me in the mindset of being a true thinker and always planning out every move you got going.

Herb and I have worked together for nearly two decades, and I've appreciated him as a creative and strategic thinker and, most importantly, as a friend. He has guided Nickelodeon Networks to an unrivaled leadership position and has broadened its businesses to engage viewers beyond the TV screen in licensing, movies, recreation and much more. He is a true innovator, and he is leaving a great legacy for our company and the industry.

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

A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure.

Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.

From Gadamer I learned that to understand a given thinker requires one to presuppose that he is right.

I'm a visual thinker, so I think of everything visually, first. A lot of what an issue will become for me starts with me thinking, "What's a great cover?," or "What's the splash image?," or "What is the title of the issue? How do I see the text?" I think about all of that stuff, and then the story comes out of that imagery.

When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.

The small are always dependent on the great; they are "small" precisely because they think they are independent. The great thinker is one who can hear what is greatest in the work of other "greats" and who can transform it in an original manner.

The time for thinkers has come.

I am a very bottom-up thinker.

Clearly, Enlightenment thinkers were seeking a God substitute.

It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism.

Like all former thinkers, I'm writing a book.

Some of the most patriarchal thinkers I know are women. Some of the most feminist thinkers are men.

A thinker is a person.

Thinkers perish, thoughts don't.

All things are at odds when God sets a thinker loose on the planet

Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril.

Thinkers are as scarce as gold.

The vertical thinker says: 'I know what I am looking for.' The lateral thinker says: 'I am looking but I won't know what I am looking for until I have found it.'

I aint a drinker Im a thinker, call it what you want

Considering yourself selflessly selfish is a principle of all great thinkers

Our century is a brutal thinker.

They can ta'k our lives but they can never ta'k our freedom!' Now there's a battle cry not designed by a clear thinker

I have learned more from Hayek than from any other living thinker, except perhaps Alfred Tarski - but not even excepting Russell.

I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers

The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought: ...

Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.

Every great thinker is someone else's moron.

What the thinker thinks, the prover proves

I've always been a curious thinker. And now, as an adult, I can articulate it.

He was a 'how' thinker, not an 'if' thinker.

Every great thinker keeps a journal, you know.

Negative thinkers always have a negative vision.

The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers.

There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man.

The mark of the superior thinker is his or her ability to accurately predict the consequences of doing or not doing something.

You can be a business thinker.

Progress is the life-style of man. The general life of the human race is called Progress, and so is its collective march. Progress advances, it makes the great human and earthly journey towards what is heavenly and divine; it has its pauses, when it rallies the stragglers, its stopping places when it meditates, contemplating some new and splendid promised land that has suddenly appeared on its horizon. It has its nights of slumber; and it is one of the poignant anxieties of the thinker to see the human spirit lost in shadow, and to grope in the darkness without being able to awake sleeping progress.

I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.

The ''how'' thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ''ifs.''