Thinker Quotes

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

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 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.

A hero holds purposes appropriate to man and is, therefore, 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 most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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'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.

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.

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

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.

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.

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.

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.

The books that help you most are those which make you think that 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 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.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

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

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

I am a very bottom-up thinker.

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.