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
We tend to think of great thinkers and innovators as soloists, but the truth is that the greatest innovative thinking doesn't occur… — John C. Maxwell 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
Darwin paid particular attention to disconfirming evidence. Objectivity maintenance routines are totally required in life if you're going to be a great… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Bill Clinton was a very, very good speaker. But like many people who are great speakers and great thinkers and have a… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
What I notice about people who are gifted in filmmaking is that they're great thinkers. They engage with big ideas and they… — Ben Whishaw 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
“Even the great thinkers of the Enlightenment, with their commitment to reason, failed to recognize the ways they stereotyped others.” — Phyllis Goldstein 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
There is a real connection between culture and climate change. We all have a part to play and if you engage with… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
The host of men who stand between a great thinker and the average man are not automatic transmitters. They work on the… — Walter Lippmann 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
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
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
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
“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
It is doubtful whether our present system of popular education does not retard independent or self thinking as much as it promotes… — Joseph Alexander Leighton 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
A great thinker once described innovative thinkers this way: "Some men see things as they are and say, 'Why?' I dream of… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
After Bruno's death, during the first half of the seventeenth century, Descartes seemed about to take the leadership of human thought... in… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
A lot of great thinkers- like Einstein and Newton- come up with their best ideas when they're young because they don't yet… — George Lucas 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
“In my freshman and sophomore years of college, I read dozens of books by the great thinkers of Western civilization. From Plato… — Stefanie Weisman 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
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
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
If only our great thinkers could learn to talk, and our great talkers could learn to think. — Ashleigh Brilliant 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
“Great thinkers and geniuses are good listeners, but many are not gifted with excellent communicative speech.” — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. A great book that comes from a great… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Not every President is a great speaker. Not every President is a great thinker. But in the modern era, every single President… — Brad Meltzer Copy Share Image