All great thinkers are initially ridiculed - and…

It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to…

— Hermann Hesse

Know thyself! This is the source of all wisdom, said the great thinkers of the past, and the sentence was written in golden letters…

— Karl Ernst von Baer

We learn that many great thinkers were convinced that the Bible contained the Ancient Mysteries, but not in the literal words—that the words on…

— Maureen Johnson

Every great thinker keeps a journal, you know.

— Trenton Lee Stewart

First doubt, then inquire, then discover. This has been the process with all our great thinkers.

— Henry Thomas Buckle

For the individual, as I can testify, a brief grounding in semantics, besides making philosophy unreadable, makes unreadable most political speeches, classical economic theory,…

— Stuart Chase

People who are great thinkers, in science or in art, people who are great performers, have to have that kind of capacity. Without that…

— Antonio Damasio

Right at this moment, I only want silence. I believe that the end of life is silence in the love people have for you.…

— Vincent Price

There is little doubt that the majority of Mr. Mills supporters in 1865 did not know what his political opinions were, and that they…

— Millicent Fawcett

There's nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker to set the intellectual community atwitter and cause academics to dart…

— Woody Allen

The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading; every…

— Theodore Parker

“Have a positive mentality; think it's possible. You can build on something little… you can create something little from nothing… and this means you…

— Israelmore Ayivor

There is no violent surface indication of the ecstasy which great thinkers alone enjoy. There is nothing dramatic about it, but there is some…

— Walter Russell

The benevolence of wrapping the partridge in a vine leaf brings out its quality, just as the barrel of Diogenes brought forth the qualities…

— Emmanuel des Essarts

A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback, had the cover laminated…

— Anne Fadiman