It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The benevolence of wrapping the partridge in a vine leaf brings out its quality, just as the barrel of Diogenes brought forth… — Emmanuel des Essarts Copy Share Image
There is no violent surface indication of the ecstasy which great thinkers alone enjoy. There is nothing dramatic about it, but there… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
“Have a positive mentality; think it's possible. You can build on something little.... you can create something little from nothing.... and this… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
There's nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker to set the intellectual community atwitter and cause academics… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
There is little doubt that the majority of Mr. Mills supporters in 1865 did not know what his political opinions were, and… — Millicent Fawcett Copy Share Image
Right at this moment, I only want silence. I believe that the end of life is silence in the love people have… — Vincent Price Copy Share Image
People who are great thinkers, in science or in art, people who are great performers, have to have that kind of capacity.… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
For the individual, as I can testify, a brief grounding in semantics, besides making philosophy unreadable, makes unreadable most political speeches, classical… — Stuart Chase Copy Share Image
First doubt, then inquire, then discover. This has been the process with all our great thinkers. — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
You have always the same view from your window! For different views, visit other houses! And for different ideas, visit other minds! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
We learn that many great thinkers were convinced that the Bible contained the Ancient Mysteries, but not in the literal words—that the… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
Know thyself! This is the source of all wisdom, said the great thinkers of the past, and the sentence was written in… — Karl Ernst von Baer Copy Share Image
A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback, had the… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
Great thinkers often learn, to their surprise, that new ideas are less than welcome. — Gerd Gigerenzer Copy Share Image
I just don't think we think about jurists as rock stars or great thinkers, particularly in the political world. — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
James Lovelock is one of the great thinkers of our time. His ideas and inventions have opened up new insights into our… — Chris Rapley Copy Share Image
The small are always dependent on the great; they are "small" precisely because they think they are independent. The great thinker is… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination. You will meet the great thinkers who will… — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
As to how I would guide someone who is confused about the idea of God, I would suggest that he or she… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
Considering yourself selflessly selfish is a principle of all great thinkers — Phil Collins Copy Share Image
I had a friend in college who loved to say: 'If you can dream it, you can do it.' It became my… — Michele Gorman Copy Share Image
