Thinker Quotes

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.

The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand. The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.

I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print.

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

A hero holds purposes appropriate to man and is, therefore, a thinker.

Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.

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.

I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker.

I'm not a great deductive thinker, but I will admit to having competence in a very wide range of things - not being afraid to try to write about baseball, choral music and dinosaurs in the same week and see connections among them.

Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev.

I'm not a political thinker, but I've just always thought of myself as a Labour supporter. I was a great fan of Tony Blair. He sent me a letter before I swam the Channel to wish me luck.

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

Every time we bring someone in we ensure that they are a strategic thinker, but even more important that they understand that if the products aren't successful and the products don't sell that there won't be anything to strategize about.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind.

I think I identify more with the smart guy, but most people might take umbrage at that. I like to think of myself as a real thinker, but I suppose people might beg to differ.

I'm bad at doing what I'm told. I'm a born free thinker.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

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.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious.

First, he must hold rational values, and to do this he must be a thinker.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of "crackpot" than the stigma of conformity.

I really am a thinker. I don't do things rash. I know some of the things I've said or the way I act seem rash. But I do take ownership of it. I don't say things I don't mean.

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.

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

I'm an independent thinker. And I'm not the poster child for any movement. I'm trying to support whatever's right no matter where it is.

I spent 22 years in the United States military, so I'm a pretty strategic level thinker.

The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's.