Quotes about Thinker

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it. Votes: 6

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. Votes: 6

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. Votes: 6

He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things. Votes: 5

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him. Votes: 5

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal. Votes: 5

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor. Votes: 4

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Votes: 4

Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good. Votes: 4

I believe that our very survival depends upon us becoming better systems thinkers. Votes: 4

Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood. Votes: 4

The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE. Votes: 4

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good. Votes: 4

The thinker without a paradox is like a lover without a feeling: a paltry mediocrity. Votes: 4

A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove. Votes: 4

On the heights it is warmer than people in the valley suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile. Votes: 4

I hate the idea of always having to interpret other people's ideas and thoughts and words, because I'm very independent and, I guess, a free thinker. Votes: 4

No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead. Votes: 4

The Founding Fathers were neither passive, death-worshipin g mystics nor mindless, power-seeking looters; as a political group they were a phenomenon unprecedented in history: they were thinkers who were also men of action. Votes: 4

I do not believe in God. I'm an atheist. I consider myself a critical thinker, and it fascinates me that in the 21st century most people still believe in, as George Carlin puts it, 'the invisible man living in the sky' Votes: 4

No one can stop or control your thought process or your thinking. You can think anything you want. But that doesn't seem to be the point. The thinking process has to be directed into a certain approach... not in accord with certain dogma, philosophy, or concepts. Instead, one has to know the thinker itself. Votes: 4

Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him. Votes: 4

The great creators - the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors - stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought was opposed. Every great new invention was denounced. The first motor was considered foolish. The airplane was considered impossible... But the men of unborrowed vision went ahead. They fought, they suffered and they paid. But they won. Votes: 4

I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated. Votes: 3

Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world? Votes: 3

I learned to cross the threshold of my studio with reverence, as though I were entering a shrine set apart for me to become co-creator with the Universal Thinker of all things. Votes: 3

The heart is the best reflective thinker. Votes: 2

A hero holds purposes appropriate to man and is, therefore, a thinker. Votes: 2

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker. Votes: 2

I'm a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments. Votes: 2

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. Votes: 2

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal. Votes: 2

The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world. Votes: 2

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't be an Olympic athlete if you don't train regularly. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness. Votes: 2

I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious of need, responsibility of thinking-speaking with truth. I do not go about hunting 'truths.' Votes: 2

Maybe sometimes I'm such a thinker, I reevaluate too much. Sometimes when it comes down to it, I really don't need to do anything, I don't really need to change anything. I need to just keep plugging away, working at it. Votes: 2

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

If you're an original thinker, you are going get told 'no' a lot, and you have to be able to hear 'no' many times from the bankers and trust that at some point, someone is going to recognize that you are an artist and not a can of soda. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Sometimes for a lot of new artists, they don't have a vision, really, or know what they want to say; it's kind of drawn out for them. But me, because I'm such a transcendental thinker, it's always like a journey and an adventure with each project. It's like going through a different doorway each time. Votes: 2

thinker is always the winner. Votes: 1

What are the messages that you are entertaining? Votes: 1

Those who cannot attack the thought, instead attack the thinker. Votes: 1

Sometimes you need to move away before you can see where you are Votes: 1

Learning to think rigorously, so as to act rightly and to serve humanity better. Votes: 1

I am neither a philosopher nor a thinker, but simply follower of my own thoughts. Votes: 1

The survival of poor opinions can make a thinker feel as though he is failing humanity. Votes: 1

I like to think of myself as a pure rebel; A radical thinker on a musical level. Votes: 1

When, despite considerable intelligence, a thinker cannot think straight, it becomes very likely that he cannot face his thoughts. Votes: 1

Do not allow yourself to be a thermometer which gauges the temperature, rather be a thermostat which changes your environment. Votes: 1

Give thinking the opportunity to be your everyday meal; you get nourished by the best success nutrients. You will never be deficient! Votes: 1

I treat my thoughts like an old person treats their valuables: I cannot for the life of me proceed to throwing them out. Votes: 1

The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame. Votes: 1

A genius masters the art of observation, and unites with the source of imagination to create advancements in the cause for human evolution. Votes: 1

Being different and thinking different makes a person unforgettable. History does not remember the forgettable. It honors the unique minority the majority cannot forget. Votes: 1

The poet or the story-teller who cannot give the reader a little ghostly pleasure at times never can be either a really great writer or a great thinker. Votes: 1

And if they thought her aimless, if they thought her a bit mad, let them. It meant they left her alone. Marya was not aimless, anyway. She was thinking. Votes: 1

Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain. Votes: 1

Have a positive mentality; think it's possible. You can build on something little.... you can create something little from nothing.... and this means you build on nothing! Get something to do! Votes: 1

When Albert Einstein told you to hide your source, he wasn't giving you a deliberate advice to conceal the root in which you're growing, but was to conceal the root from the eyes of people that will dare to uproot it. Votes: 1

The hardest chore to do, and to do right, is to think. Why do you think the common man would choose labor, partially, as a distraction from his own thoughts? It is because that level of stress, he most absolutely abhors. Votes: 1

A person who is truly cool is a work of art. And remember, original works of art cost exponentially higher than imitations. Just take a look at the the coolest people in history. They will always be a part of history for being extremely original individuals, not imitations. Votes: 1

A thinker is a person. Votes: 0

Secret thinker sometimes listening aloud. Votes: 0

I am a very bottom-up thinker. Votes: 0

Our century is a brutal thinker. Votes: 0

I'm a thinker not a talker. Votes: 0

Every great thinker is someone else's moron. Votes: 0

Free thinker walks on shortcuts among wisdoms. Votes: 0

Is there a thinker apart from thought? Votes: 0

What the thinker thinks, the prover proves Votes: 0

I'm not a great deep political thinker. Votes: 0

Every great thinker keeps a journal, you know. Votes: 0

The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers. Votes: 0

No, I try not to be a negative thinker. Votes: 0

God is the one great employer, thinker, planner, supervisor. Votes: 0

He was a 'how' thinker, not an 'if' thinker. Votes: 0

The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial. Votes: 0

I don't consider myself to be that radical a thinker. Votes: 0

The creative thinker must stand sufficiently detached from his work. Votes: 0

A thinker reverses roles and sees the perspectives of others. Votes: 0

Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise. Votes: 0

God secludes Himself; but the thinker listens at the door. Votes: 0

[James Mattis] is a student of history. He's a strategic thinker. Votes: 0

The profession of being a creative thinker is not so obvious. Votes: 0

I'm not my thoughts, I'm the thinker who has those thoughts. Votes: 0

I am not an original thinker-but I am an original listener.) Votes: 0

The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking. Votes: 0

Snowden is an orderly thinker, with an engineer's approach to problem-solving. Votes: 0

Hesitancy in judgment is the only true mark of the thinker. Votes: 0

The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's. Votes: 0

You can't be a good writer without being a good thinker. Votes: 0

I'm a deep thinker when it comes to shallow no brainers. Votes: 0

Conclusion: better to be a thinking monk than a postmodern thinker. Votes: 0

Man is a conscious, rational thinker and a supra-conscious creator genius. Votes: 0

Whenever a maker and a thinker get together, really cool stuff happens. Votes: 0

If you want to be a sharp thinker, be around sharp people. Votes: 0

Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril. Votes: 0

I'm bad at doing what I'm told. I'm a born free thinker. Votes: 0

I wouldn't say I was a born writer; I'm a born thinker. Votes: 0

I aint a drinker Im a thinker, call it what you want Votes: 0

I'd rather be a 'THINKER' - Two Healthy Incomes No Kids Early Retirement! Votes: 0

Giorgio Agamben is possibly the most delicate and probing thinker since Walter Benjamin. Votes: 0

The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future. Votes: 0

I think it's very desirable to be an individual and a free thinker. Votes: 0

Hayek, in my view, is the leading economic thinker of the 20th century. Votes: 0

I am not very good at statistics. I am also a poor thinker. Votes: 0

When obstacles or difficulties arise, the positive thinker takes them as creative opportunities. Votes: 0

The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE. Votes: 0

I'm a visual thinker, not a language-based thinker. My brain is like Google Images. Votes: 0

The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's. Votes: 0

A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure. Votes: 0

There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man. Votes: 0

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere the careless, the most stupid thinker Votes: 0

All things are at odds when God sets a thinker loose on the planet Votes: 0

I think that if you're a digital thinker, you can use a digital camera. Votes: 0

Any positive thinker is compelled to see everything in the light of his own convictions. Votes: 0

My mother was a very positive thinker; she was always active, always doing something good. Votes: 0

A possibility thinker notices a problem just long enough to get excited about the solution. Votes: 0

I really believe the most handicapped [person] in the whole world is a negative thinker. Votes: 0

Ever since I was a kid, I've always been a real deep thinker and stuff. Votes: 0

I spent 22 years in the United States military, so I'm a pretty strategic level thinker. Votes: 0

I've always been a curious thinker. And now, as an adult, I can articulate it. Votes: 0

I was not a public - I was not a thinker. I was a doer. Votes: 0

It takes me time to realize things; I'm a speedy person but a slow thinker. Votes: 0

Man is a slow, sloppy and brilliant thinker; the machine is fast, accurate and stupid. Votes: 0

You are a devious woman, Blackthorn,' she said. 'I prefer the term strategic thinker. Votes: 0

The ability to ask questions is a virtue and a trait of a free thinker. Votes: 0

As a Jewish thinker, I don't think of myself in relationship to the dominant culture's religion. Votes: 0

[Emerson] was interested not in the bookworm, not even in the thinker, only in Man Thinking. Votes: 0

I pride myself in being a deep thinker, and I want you to be one too. Votes: 0

I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker. Votes: 0

A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it. Votes: 0

An extraordinarily precocious mind, a political free thinker, who towered above his political contemporaries in Germany. Votes: 0

Kierkegaard was by far the most profound thinker of the last century. Kierkegaard was a saint. Votes: 0

Aristotle was by far a less able thinker than Plato ... he was completely overwhelmed by Plato. Votes: 0

You don't hurry a thinker, and you don't talk to him when he's thinking. It's just inconsiderate. Votes: 0

Remember, every great leader (or visionary or brave thinker) was initially laughed at. Now they are revered. Votes: 0

Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think. Votes: 0

I am a forward thinker with nostalgia. I dream of the past, and daydream of the future. Votes: 0

You label somebody 'New Age,' and that's automatic mockery: 'She cannot possibly be a serious thinker.' Votes: 0

From Gadamer I learned that to understand a given thinker requires one to presuppose that he is right. Votes: 0

The doer and the thinker, no allowances for the other, as the failing light illuminates the mercenaries creed. Votes: 0

Ross Perot came and visited Apple several times and visited the Macintosh factory. Ross was a systems thinker. Votes: 0

I'm admittedly a record guy. Singles and I are a different beast. I'm definitely an overall picture thinker. Votes: 0

For most of my life, I was a worrier and an over-thinker. I had pretty bad social anxiety. Votes: 0

The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution. Votes: 0

For the sensory thinker, the world of the mind bears a direct physical resemblance to the world outside. Votes: 0

In choosing not to be a beast, I discovered my humanity. I became autodidactic, self-educated - a critical thinker. Votes: 0

A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought. Votes: 0

Every philosophical thinker hails it [The Origin of Species] as a veritable Whitworth gun in the armoury of liberalism. Votes: 0

Be an independent thinker at all times, and ignore anyone who attempts to define you in a limiting way. Votes: 0

I am a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments. Votes: 0

Be a thinker, be a dreamer, be a believer, be a doer, and, above all, be a kind lover. Votes: 0

It is the hardest thing in the world to be a good thinker without being a good self examiner. Votes: 0

If you are a thinker, you will change the language. You will not use words the way others do. Votes: 0

Every revolutionary thinker in America, White, Black, Brown or Red, never got the true representation from the corporate-controlled media. Votes: 0

The dignity of man is vindicated as much by the thinker and poet as by the statesman and soldier. Votes: 0

I'm not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years. Votes: 0

You are not who you think.You're not even the thinker.You are the one conscious of the thought. Votes: 0

When everybody has access to an avalanche of information, becoming a master thinker is very important in your life-long security. Votes: 0

I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker, and you have to stop all that to write a novel. Votes: 0

Well, I outline fanatically. I am a long thinker and a slow writer, though I am trying to get faster. Votes: 0

I'm a big thinker, and sometimes I think too much, and my brain can get in the way of myself. Votes: 0

I was a romantic, messy thinker. I was raised with very conservative beliefs, but that was a long time ago. Votes: 0

I'm quite a neurotic thinker, quite an adrenalized person. But after meditation, I felt this beautiful serenity and selfless connection. Votes: 0

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in. Votes: 0

It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism. Votes: 0

The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful, he must obey his impulse. Votes: 0

Make a list of your friends and determine who is the most positive thinker among them and deliberately cultivate his society. Votes: 0

The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon. Votes: 0

Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker. Votes: 0

The thinker as reader reads what has been written. He wears the words he reads to look upon Within his being.... Votes: 0

I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals. Votes: 0

I'm not on all the time. I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker. Votes: 0

I have learned more from Hayek than from any other living thinker, except perhaps Alfred Tarski - but not even excepting Russell. Votes: 0

The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness. Votes: 0

I have epiphanies all the time, because I'm always thinking. I'm a thinker. I'm always writing poetry, I'm always coming to conclusions. Votes: 0

How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books? Votes: 0

For the thinker the world is a thought; for the wit, an image; for the enthusiast, a dream; for the inquirer, truth. Votes: 0

To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be. Votes: 0

I'm a discursive thinker, so quotation has played an active role in the structure and content of my books from the beginning. Votes: 0

Hillary Clinton has a vision, she has knowledge and judgment. She is a strategic thinker, based on her experience and her connection. Votes: 0

You can think negatively or positively. If you are a positive thinker, you will base your decisions on faith rather than fear. Votes: 0

The mark of the superior thinker is his or her ability to accurately predict the consequences of doing or not doing something. Votes: 0

The thinker requires exactly the same light as the painter, clear, without direct sunshine, or blinding reflection, and, where possible, from above. Votes: 0

Herbert Spencer is little read now. Philosophers do not regard him as a major thinker. Social Darwinism has long been in disrepute. Votes: 0

Every morning you have a choice. Are you going to be a positive thinker or a negative thinker? Positive thinking will energize you. Votes: 0

To the thinker, the most trifling external object often suggests ideas, which, like Homer's chain, extend, link after link, from earth to heaven. Votes: 0

I'm very good in math, and I'm a logical thinker. I don't get wrapped up in things or even wrapped up in myself. Votes: 0

If I had to choose between a narrow-minded woman or a man who was an enlightened thinker, I would vote for the man. Votes: 0

Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious. Votes: 0

Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so dam serious. Votes: 0

I've always been a big thinker that the more international competition that we create through sports the better relationships we'll have with countries. Votes: 0

I am what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker - a mere diversion, a comic interlude, something that is soon forgotten. Votes: 0

Darwin paid particular attention to disconfirming evidence. Objectivity maintenance routines are totally required in life if you're going to be a great thinker. Votes: 0

There is nothing to fear from truth....Being truthful is essential to being an independent thinker and obtaining greater understanding of what is right. Votes: 0

It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm. Votes: 0

To base the unexplainabilty and the immense wonder of nature onto an other miracle, God, is unnecessary and not acceptable for any serious thinker. Votes: 0

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all. Votes: 0

Lucidity of speech is unquestionably one of the surest tests of mental precision...In my experience a confused talker is never a clear thinker. Votes: 0

Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it but the free-thinker alone is truly free. Votes: 0

The ploughman knows how many acres he shall upturn from dawn to sunset: but the thinker knows not what a day may bring forth. Votes: 0

No writer or thinker has taught me as much as James Hunter has about this all-important and complex subject of how culture is changed. Votes: 0

The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs but goes right to work on the creative how. Votes: 0

In poetry there are two giants, rough Homer and fine Shakespere. In music likewise we have two giants, Beethoven, the thinker, and the superthinker Berlioz. Votes: 0

At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry. Votes: 0

The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of attention. Votes: 0

Are you a thinker, a doer, or a clutch player? The better you are, the greater potential for influence you will have with your people. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The importance of an individual thinker owes something to chance. For it depends upon the fate of his ideas in the minds of his successors. Votes: 0

I think I've done a good job in the industry from the standpoint of employee morale and customer satisfaction, and as an innovative thinker in tech. Votes: 0

A thought may be very commendable as a thought, but I value it chiefly as a window through which I can obtain insight on the thinker. Votes: 0

The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker can feel himself lonely, most positively furthered, and most richly fed Votes: 0

I'm a thinker; I think too much. So for me to freestyle rap, it's like I'm thinking three, four time steps ahead, and I hate it. Votes: 0

To base the unexplainabilty and the immense wonder of nature onto an other miracle (God) is unnecessary and not acceptable for any serious thinker.[Diary entry, 1971] Votes: 0

I think my thinking with my heartI act with my thinking from my heartbut I'm just a human being with a heart and not a rational thinker Votes: 0

The biggest thinker that's influenced my feminism is definitely Bell Hooks, who's a feminist cultural critic, because of her accessibility but also just because she's a genius. Votes: 0

But the disappearance of the effort to let go is precisely the disappearance of the separate thinker, of the ego trying to watch the mind without interfering. Votes: 0

The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality, a fanatical monomaniac. Votes: 0

You are the only thinker in your world and your thought is creative. Whatever you think about the other person, you are also creating in your life. Votes: 0

I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador Votes: 0

The revolutionary and critical thinker is in a certain way always outside of his society while of course he is at the same time also in it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Never think negatively, for the negative thinker does a very dangerous thing. He pumps out negative thoughts into the world around him and thus activates the world negatively. Votes: 0

When the mind goes beyond the thought of 'the me,' the experiencer, the observer, the thinker, then there is a possibility of a happiness that is incorruptible. Votes: 0

The benevolence of wrapping the partridge in a vine leaf brings out its quality, just as the barrel of Diogenes brought forth the qualities of the great thinker. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

All power is indeed weak compared with that of the thinker. He sits upon the throne of his Empire of Thought, mightier far than they who wield material sceptres. Votes: 0

One great thinker said one thing, another said another, and while the two thoughts are contradicting, the one that backs my argument at the moment is the superior statement. Votes: 0

In America, there are people who don't read science fiction but still think about tomorrow, so it's not only the force of science-fiction that makes you a tomorrow thinker. Votes: 0

Profound minds are the most likely to think lightly of the resources of human reason, and it is the superficial thinker who is generally strongest in every kind of unbelief. Votes: 0

If evil means to be self-motivated, to be the center of one's own universe, to live on one's own terms, then every artist, every thinker, every original mind, is evil. Votes: 0

You can't use up creativity, creative thinking builds on itself and increases the creativity of the thinker...You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. Votes: 0

Not every President is a great speaker. Not every President is a great thinker. But in the modern era, every single President is a master of one thing: eye contact. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The speculative thinker makes Christianity into theology, instead of recognizing that a living relationship to Christ involves passion, struggle, decision, personal appropriation, and inner transformation.' (Moore's summary of Kierkegaard) Votes: 0

Anatoli Tarasov, the guy that created the Soviet style of play, was a visionary. He was a creative thinker. He studied ballet and chess and art and read a lot. Votes: 0

This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion. Votes: 0

I think Phil Dick was particularly interesting in that, first of all, he was a very modern man and a very modern thinker, but I don't know what demons drove him. Votes: 0

You could be a rebel, a profound thinker, and a rock and roll maniac and still eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and drink a nice cup of tea with your friends. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You have to give credit where credit's due. Steve [Jobs] has been probably the single hardware/software forward-looking thinker and executor in our lifetime as an individual. He's quite a brilliant innovator. Votes: 0

I consider Paine our greatest political thinker. As we have not advanced, and perhaps never shall advance, beyond the Declaration and Constitution, so Paine has had no successors who extended his principles. Votes: 0

You are to have implicit confidence in your own ability, knowing that it is the nature of thought to externalize itself in your health and affairs, knowing that you are the thinker. Votes: 0

We criticize a thinker more acutely when he advances a proposition that is disagreeable to us; and yet it would be more reasonableto do so when his proposition is agreeable to us. Votes: 0

I think that my work is easy to understand because I am not a thinker, I am not a... How can I put it? I write the way I perceive, I guess. Votes: 0

It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are the main thing. If they are on the other side then this is a valuable bonus. Votes: 0

Tragedy is always a mistake; and the loneliness of the deepest thinker, the widest lover, ceases to be pathetic to us so soon as the sun is high enough above the mountains. Votes: 0

Somewhere along the line, I conditioned myself to be a quick thinker. I take a step back and try to assess the situation, then make the best decision possible at the moment. Votes: 0

I'm a plotter. A thinker, a note-maker, a mapper and a flow-charter. I'm up for using any device that will teach me more about the people I'm writing about and their story. Votes: 0

One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical"for the paradox is the source of the thinker's passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity. Votes: 0

I think that a visual artist's philosophy develops much more freely than a writer's or a thinker's philosophy. It is not so disciplined. The photographer works with both his eyes and his mind. Votes: 0

To my mind [ Jonathan Edwards] is an interesting figure because he is both a canonical Reformed thinker, and yet also someone that pushed the envelope in a number of key areas of theology. Votes: 0

The host of men who stand between a great thinker and the average man are not automatic transmitters. They work on the ideas; perhaps that is why a genius usually hates his disciples. Votes: 0

The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a fool, the artist an escapist, the man of vision a criminal. Votes: 0

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.' Votes: 0

My political philosophy as a libertarian says that government has no business intervening in any consensual private behavior. My professional ethic as a thinker and writer, however, says that self-knowledge is our ultimate responsibility Votes: 0

The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. A great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty. Votes: 0

Attitude is the first quality that marks the successful man. If he has a positive attitude and is a positive thinker, who likes challenges and difficult situations, then he has half his success achieved. Votes: 0

A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it. Positive thinking is a form of thought which habitually looks for the best results from the worst conditions Votes: 0

In the last century the Arab thinker Jamal al-Afghani wrote: 'Every Muslim is sick and his only remedy is in the Koran.' Unfortunately the sickness gets worse the more the remedy is taken. Votes: 0

There is little doubt that the majority of Mr. Mill's supporters in 1865 did not know what his political opinions were, and that they voted for him simply on his reputation as a great thinker. Votes: 0

There is little doubt that the majority of Mr. Mills supporters in 1865 did not know what his political opinions were, and that they voted for him simply on his reputation as a great thinker. Votes: 0

I'm a visual thinker. With almost all of my writing, I start with something that's visual: either the way someone says something that is visual or an actual visual description of a scene and color. Votes: 0

Coleridge cried; "O God, how glorious it is to live!" Renan asks, "O God, when will it be worth while to live?" In Nature we echo the poet; in the world we echo the thinker. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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: ... Votes: 0

The realm of consciousness is much vaster than thought can grasp. When you no longer believe everything you think, you step out of thought and see clearly that the thinker is not who you are. Votes: 0

Popular women use positive, optimistic language in their online profiles, not buzzwords like "future thinker". Here are the ten most often used words I found: easy-going, love, laugh, laid-back, optimistic, outgoing, fun, down-to-earth, pleasure, adventure. Votes: 0