Thinker Quotes

492 quotes by 381 authors

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… — Russell Baker
Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie… — Russell Baker
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. — Douglas Adams
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way… — Edward de Bono
I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don't acquire any identity or self-image of themselves… — Edward de Bono
Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers. — Alain de Botton
The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work.… — Jerome Bruner
Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their… — Benjamin Carson
The founding fathers were not only brilliant, they were system builders and systematic thinkers. They came up with comprehensive plans and visions. — Ron Chernow
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. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers. — Emile M. Cioran
When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one's grandmother. The really… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I believe that there is but One Thinker in the universe; that my thinking is His thinking, and that every man's thinking is an extension,… — Walter Russell
Man is a slow, sloppy and brilliant thinker; the machine is fast, accurate and stupid. — William Moore Kelly
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… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
For the sensory thinker, the world of the mind bears a direct physical resemblance to the world outside. — Robert Sommer
If we had to play Augusta National in one hour, the best athlete would win the Masters. But as it is, they give us time… — Joe Inman

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