Great thinkers often learn, to their surprise, that new ideas are less than welcome. — Gerd Gigerenzer Copy Share Image
Considering yourself selflessly selfish is a principle of all great thinkers — Phil Collins 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
First doubt, then inquire, then discover. This has been the process with all our great thinkers. — Henry Thomas Buckle 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
“Give thinking the opportunity to be your everyday meal; you get nourished by the best success nutrients. You will never be deficient!” — Israelmore Ayivor 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
No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Great thinkers and geniuses are good listeners, but many are not gifted with excellent communicative speech.” — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
Great thinkers think inductively, that is, they create solution and then seek out the problems that solution might solve; most companies think… — Joey Reiman Copy Share Image
I've heard people say that the trouble with the world is that we haven't enough great leaders. I think we haven't enough… — Babe Ruth 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
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
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
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
But as I wrote the book [Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet], I tried to write it as clearly and directly and passionately… — Jeffrey Rosen 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
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
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
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
“We are tied down, all our days and for the greater part of our days, to the commonplace. That is where contact… — Mortimer J. Adler 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
Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
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
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
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
I'll bet every great thinker and leader we've got Could see all kinds of things other people could not! So then why… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
“Our world is peaks and valleys, with rules in great abundance. But in the minds of great thinkers there is power. Think… — E.J. Norris 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
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
Christianity in the West, opens up a perspective of depth into what it means to be a self. And that depth of… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
It interests me when I hear people quoting great thinkers, because it's like, OK, but does that make you any brighter? — Lynne Ramsay Copy Share Image
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education. — William James Copy Share Image
Advertising is full of great thinkers. This is a powerful industry and does a lot more than we take credit for. — David Droga Copy Share Image