I was a romantic, messy thinker. I was raised with very conservative beliefs, but that was a long time ago. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial. — George Will Copy Share Image
Emerson's fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Man is a slow, sloppy and brilliant thinker; the machine is fast, accurate and stupid. — William Moore Kelly Copy Share Image
It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I'm quite a neurotic thinker, quite an adrenalized person. But after meditation, I felt this beautiful serenity and selfless connection. — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
It is the hardest thing in the world to be a good thinker without being a good self examiner. — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
We criticize a thinker more acutely when he advances a proposition that is disagreeable to us; and yet it would be more… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I'm not a political thinker, but I've just always thought of myself as a Labour supporter. I was a great fan of… — David Walliams Copy Share Image
This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery... a topic that often leaves even the most sophisticated thinkers tongue-tied and confused.… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Many people have thought of me as a thinker, as a philosopher, or even as a mystic. Well the truth is that… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I have used the philosophers' ideas for my own private literary purposes, but I don't think that I'm a thinker. I suppose… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The Internet has become an integral part of everyday life precisely because it has been an open-to-all land of opportunity where entrepreneurs,… — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
Individual heterosexual women came to the movement from relationships where men were cruel, unkind, violent, unfaithful. Many of these men were radical… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker, by three different lights, in his… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Nobody is made anything by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory; practice must settle the habit of doing,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth, nor did I have access to information like you do today… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
A lot of great thinkers- like Einstein and Newton- come up with their best ideas when they're young because they don't yet… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Deep thinkers who look everywhere for the mysterious causes of poverty, ignorance, crime and war need look no further than their own… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
As a kid you learn that there are thinkers and there are philosophers and there are theologian, and I'd hear little bits… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
Effective communication is fascinating to me yet bad communication is just as fascinating. There are lessons to be learned from both. I… — Nancy Duarte Copy Share Image
Big thinkers are specialists in creating positive, forward-looking, optimistic pictures in their own minds and in the minds of others. — David J. Schwartz Copy Share Image
Early Chinese thinkers had taken variety at face value. They had favored diversification and collected anomalies instead of trying to explain them… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
The greater part of mankind may be divided into two classes; that of shallow thinkers who fall short of the truth; and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I hate the idea of always having to interpret other people's ideas and thoughts and words, because I'm very independent and, I… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
The judges of England have rarely been original thinkers or great jurists. Many have been craftsmen rather than creators. — Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin Copy Share Image
The ploughman knows how many acres he shall upturn from dawn to sunset: but the thinker knows not what a day may… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education. — William James Copy Share Image
“I work to make human beings out of human bodies. I work to make conscience out of mindlessness. I work to make… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea They thought great thoughts about liberty Poets wrote down words that did… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I think Phil Dick was particularly interesting in that, first of all, he was a very modern man and a very modern… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
Make a list of your friends and determine who is the most positive thinker among them and deliberately cultivate his society. — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
A low thinker may talk when they take it in while the stong minded can simply walk while they breathe it in — Heritier Ndele Copy Share Image
The doer and the thinker, no allowances for the other, as the failing light illuminates the mercenaries creed. — Jethro Tull Copy Share Image
When everybody has access to an avalanche of information, becoming a master thinker is very important in your life-long security. — Stedman Graham Copy Share Image