Smartness without wisdom is stupidity.

I'm a visual thinker, really bad at algebra. There's others that are a pattern thinker. These are the music and math minds. They think in patterns instead of pictures. Then there's another type that's not a visual thinker at all, and they're the ones that memorize all of the sports statistics, all of the weather statistics.

The profession of being a creative thinker is not so obvious.

The style of the Bible in general is singularly adapted to men of every class and grade of culture, affording the child the simple nourishment for its religious wants, and the profoundest thinker inexhaustible matter of study.

I'm a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments.

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

I'm a classical liberal. A free thinker.

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

It took time for me to step away and become an independent thinker so that wherever I am in the world, I understand who I am and that nothing's impossible.

If you're an original thinker, you are going get told 'no' a lot, and you have to be able to hear 'no' many times from the bankers and trust that at some point, someone is going to recognize that you are an artist and not a can of soda.

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.

I'm a thinker.

Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes is the one I feel most affinity for, and Michel Foucault, well, his writing influenced my novel, 'Middlesex.'

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

I'm not a good thinker of tomorrow, looking forward. I live day-to-day. It's much easier for me that way.

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.

My take, after spending some time with him, is that Kanye West is not a conservative. He's not a Republican, but he is a free thinker, and he's an independent thinker.

I want to show people it's not elitist to be a deep thinker.

I'm a 'blue sky thinker' and dream big.