Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

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.

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.

By any reasonable measure of achievement the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

I wouldn't say I'm a very original thinker but if I have a good experience with something I'll want to take it further or adapt it in some way.

Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true they just hope to find out what reality is like.

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

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

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 the car is driven.

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