Top 105 Thinker Quotes

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.

It took time for me to step away and become an independent thinker so that wherever I am in the world, I understand who I am and that nothing’s impossible.

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.

After spending time around Donald Trump I find myself inspired by his vision, thought process, keen insight, and overall discipline. He’s a brilliant thinker who tends to walk several steps ahead of the masses. I want to share his wisdom with the world in my own way.

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

I’m a ‘blue sky thinker’ and dream big.

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

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.

I said that if I hadn’t been a politician, I’d have liked to be a barrister, or an academic. My beloved wife said: ‘You’d be a very good barrister and a hopeless academic.’ I said ‘Why?’ She said: ‘Because you’re not an original thinker.’

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.

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.

I just know that I’m innovative. I’m a quick thinker… In Washington, I just want to be a senator who finds a way to drive change and not figure out a way to conform.

I’ve always been a big, bold thinker and a dreamer.

Brock Lesnar is an extraordinary, underrated forward thinker. Every day of Brock’s life, he is smarter than he was the day before.

I am a thinker, and I do muse over things a lot and am constantly assessing whether I am doing enough or what I should be doing more of to make sure I am not letting anyone down.

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

I’m a classical liberal. A free 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.

I am a positive thinker. You have to have this positive energy to get somewhere.

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.

Joe Biden is a backwards thinker in a world craving forward-looking leadership.

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.

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 a very deep thinker, and I find it very hard to switch off at night, so I usually have to put on an episode of ‘Friends’ or listen to some music before bed.

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

It takes me time to realize things; I’m a speedy person but a slow thinker.

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.

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.

I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or ‘big thinker.’ I don’t have any lofty goals.

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 a thinker.

My take, after spending some time with him, is that Kanye West is not a conservative. He’s not a Republican, but he is a free thinker, and he’s an independent thinker.

I’m a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn’t think through adequately. I mean, I don’t type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.

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

I want to show people it’s not elitist to be a deep 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.

We need a President who is intellectual, who is a brilliant thinker, and not only that, someone who has a heart for the people and who can represent Singapore on the greater world stage.

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.

A ‘new thinker’, when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought.

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

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.

One of the strengths of Michael Cohl is he’s a big thinker, strategic, great with relationships, artists and big deals.

Democracy is essential for equality. Thank God, Indian democracy is still working. That is because every Indian is essentially a thinker. Thinking is not limited to the elite.

Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes is the one I feel most affinity for, and Michel Foucault, well, his writing influenced my novel, ‘Middlesex.’

History is not merely a procession of people in fancy dress fighting wars. It is crucially the story of man’s evolution from grunting cave dweller to serious thinker, from cruelly retributive law to merciful law, from casual barbarism to care and compassion.

I think sometimes I should do more carousing, because I don’t do much and maybe it would be fun occasionally. It’s hard for me to have fun and I’m a serious thinker and a searcher and funny from the front.

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

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.

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.

Sociology is really in trouble as a field. I can tell you, because I’ve known young people who have wanted to go into it, and they have been uniformly advised, if you are a free thinker, stay away from sociology.

The Egyptian was the reverse of a theorist or mere thinker. He wanted to perceive with his senses how the soul took its way from the dead body into higher realms – he wanted to have this constructed before him.

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.

Emerson’s fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.

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.

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.

Keenser is a smart alien. I try to bring a little bit of comedy into it, but he’s a great thinker.

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.

The biggest direct influence on my career is Ben Edlund, who gave me my first real professional break and, through his friendship and example, turned me into a writer and a more critical thinker in general.