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

A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
David Hume

Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious.
Jacques Maritain

Every time we bring someone in we ensure that they are a strategic thinker, but even more important that they understand that if the products aren't successful and the products don't sell that there won't be anything to strategize about.
David Rose

First, he must hold rational values, and to do this he must be a thinker.
Andrew Bernstein

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of "crackpot" than the stigma of conformity.
Thomas John Watson, Sr.

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.
Chauncey Depew

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.
Gregg Easterbrook

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
Douglas Adams

I am a very bottom-up thinker.
Ken Thompson

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.
Laurell K. Hamilton

I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.
Karl Jaspers

I don't consider myself to be that radical a thinker.
Steven Pinker

I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker.
Keenen Ivory Wayans

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.
Garry shandling

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

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

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