Thinker Quotes · Page 6

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

— Frank Moore Colby

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

— Barton Gellman

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

— Dane Cook

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

— Anton Chekhov

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

— John Sculley

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

— John C. Maxwell

“Philosophy is to a thinker … what push-ups are to a model.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

No woman has been a significant original thinker in any of the world's great philosophical traditions.

— Charles Murray

What I notice about people who are gifted in filmmaking is that they're great thinkers. They engage with big ideas and they…

— Ben Whishaw

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

— Robert H. Schuller

Information is key to raising awareness of what our brain withholds from our conscious mind. Unfortunately we are hardwired emotion-driven thinkers. It…

— David Bloor

The biggest thinker that's influenced my feminism is definitely Bell Hooks, who's a feminist cultural critic, because of her accessibility but also…

— Jessica Valenti

I think most human beings are dualistic thinkers. It gets them through the day. It gives them a sense of superiority and…

— Richard Rohr

I strive to find materials that will engage students, expand their capacities as critical readers and thinkers, and feel immediately relevant to…

— Dean Spade

I think it's true that for existentialist thinkers, appreciation of what we are - free, makers of meaning, 'issues' for ourselves, and…

— David E. Cooper

I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone…

— Karl Jaspers

Why do airline pilots always call passengers "folks"? I don't usually take umbrage at generic terminology--I'm one of those forward-thinkers who believes…

— C.E. Murphy

I said that if I hadn't been a politician, I'd have liked to be a barrister, or an academic. My beloved wife…

— John Bercow

No one can stop or control your thought process or your thinking. You can think anything you want. But that doesn't seem…

— Chogyam Trungpa

There is no unmoving mover behind the movement. It is only movement. It is not correct to say that life is moving,…

— Walpola Rahula

That tendency of social thought to generalize, to describe a leading tendency in a society in such a way that it seems…

— Susan Sontag

The Bible defines almost nothing because it isn't a book for scholars and philosophers or free thinkers. It's a book for people…

— Dallas Willard

Instead of 'watching the thinker,' you can also create a gap in the mind stream simply by directing the focus of your…

— Eckhart Tolle

There are constraints on what counts as "Reformed." It's more than a name or a label. It's about belonging to a particular…

— Oliver D. Crisp

A new thinker is only one who does not know what the old thinkers have thought

— Frank Moore Colby

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

— George Bernard Shaw

“You can kill a thinker, but you can't kill the thought.”

— Terry Hayes

Thinkers are not a welcome addition to most social situations.

— Terence McKenna

Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.

— Gabriel Marcel

Positive thinkers get positive results because they are not afraid of problems.

— Ken Blanchard

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

— Haruki Murakami

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

— Paul Newman

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

— Jose Bergamin

I'm a bit of a thinker so I think a lot, and process a lot, and it always evolves into something different.

— Adriano Zumbo

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

— Heather Whitestone

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

— Andy Rooney

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

— Aristotle

“You have to be both, a warrior and a thinker, to cope with the changing times such as these.”

— Haresh Sippy

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

— Robert Sommer