Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.

- Alain de Botton

There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

- Anthony Burgess

The idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy - even beyond the market opportunities - that's something that appropriately ought to be done.

- Bill Gates

We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep and conformists.

- Bill Maher

I would say that the directors that I've liked the most are all curious in nature - curious thinkers. They're all big questioners, I would say, first and foremost.

- Brad Pitt

Even the most analytical thinkers are predictably irrational; the really smart ones acknowledge and address their irrationalities.

- Dan Ariely

Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.

- Emile M. Cioran

Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.

- Gabriel Marcel

We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers.

- Joseph Chilton Pearce

I believe that our very survival depends upon us becoming better systems thinkers.

- Margaret J. Wheatley

Tom DeLay fears independent thinkers and fighters. I am both.

- Martin Frost