Thinker Quotes

Considering yourself selflessly selfish is a principle of all great thinkers

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

True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.

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.

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.

I think the UN's role - especially since it's not an extremely rich fund, and that's to put it mildly - is mainly to act as a leading thinker of the world in terms of how to think about the future.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Secret thinker sometimes listening aloud.

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

I'm not a great deep political thinker.

No, I try not to be a negative thinker.

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

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.'

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

God is the one great employer, thinker, planner, supervisor.

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

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.

Thinkers are as scarce as gold.

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

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

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.

A thinker is a person.

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

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

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

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