Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By nature we are laconic… — Julia Gillard Copy Share Image
The underlying assumption that human nature is basically the same at all times, everywhere, and obeys eternal laws beyond human control, is… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
Individual thinkers since the days of Ezekiel and Isaiah have asserted that the despoliation of land is not only inexpedient but wrong.… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The realm of consciousness is much vaster than thought can grasp. When you no longer believe everything you think, you step out… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I am what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker - a mere diversion, a comic interlude, something that is soon… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death… — Norman Tebbit Copy Share Image
The Islamic world is obsessed with the notion of strong leaders. This is a mistake. We don't need powerful leaders, but rather… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
What makes revolutionary thought unique is its clarity and dignity, and its clear grasp of freedom and justice: simple, clear words that… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
“The only true free-thinker is he whose intellect is as much free from the future as from the past. He cares as… — G.K. Chesterton 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
Always the idea of unbroken quiet broods around the grave. It is a port where the storms of life never beat, and… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Every time we bring someone in we ensure that they are a strategic thinker, but even more important that they understand that… — David Rose Copy Share Image
I think that James Baldwin is, for sure, one of the most important American writer/thinkers of his time... not just African-American. He… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
Ownership of thought depends on the thinker not subordinating himself to a 'ruling thought'. This is particularly difficult, argues Stirner, ... for… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
George Orwell famously described international sport as 'war minus the shooting'. But for all Orwell's greatness as a thinker, this was one… — Gideon Haigh Copy Share Image
[The kitchen] was also messy--delightfully so, thought Jane--and it didn't look as though lots of cooking went on there. There was a… — Jeanne Birdsall Copy Share Image
To base the unexplainabilty and the immense wonder of nature onto an other miracle, God, is unnecessary and not acceptable for any… — Fritz Zwicky Copy Share Image
Fifty years is the long time to think about a thinker's relevance or to think of the relevance of their work to… — Nigel Gibson Copy Share Image
The dolphins and whales have a brain that is actually bigger in proportion to their size than we do. They are very… — Owsley Stanley Copy Share Image
In the case of Michael Moore, having a deep, I'd even say passionate, understanding of other types of people in America who… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
“I am the thread of unification that goes through humans of all religions, cultures and ideologies while reinforcing their innate sense of… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The market does not drive the scientists, the communicators, the thinkers, the government to do the right things. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
This year has begun hopefully for right thinkers. After all these centuries of feudal barbarism and political slavery, it is surprising to… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The Founding Fathers were neither passive, death-worshipin g mystics nor mindless, power-seeking looters; as a political group they were a phenomenon unprecedented… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Even the most analytical thinkers are predictably irrational; the really smart ones acknowledge and address their irrationalities. — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
You are the only thinker in your world and your thought is creative. Whatever you think about the other person, you are… — Joseph Murphy Copy Share Image
In poetry there are two giants, rough Homer and fine Shakespere. In music likewise we have two giants, Beethoven, the thinker, and… — Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky Copy Share Image
All power is indeed weak compared with that of the thinker. He sits upon the throne of his Empire of Thought, mightier… — Christian Nestell Bovee 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
Big-picture thinkers broaden their outlook by striving to learn from every experience. They don't rest on their successes, they learn from them. — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Reincarnation contains a most comforting explanation of reality by means of which Indian thought surmounts difficulties which baffle the thinkers of Europe. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
So we recast the wisdom of the great thinkers in the shape of our illusions. They are shiny from their makeovers, they… — Brian Morton Copy Share Image
Every revolutionary thinker in America, White, Black, Brown or Red, never got the true representation from the corporate-controlled media. — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
We humans, though troubled and warlike, are also the dreams, thinkers, and explorers inhabiting one achingly beautiful planet, yearning for the sublime,… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
The revolutionary and critical thinker is in a certain way always outside of his society while of course he is at the… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
No writer or thinker has taught me as much as James Hunter has about this all-important and complex subject of how culture… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“The positive thinker seeks to answer the question "how can I do it?", rather than simply saying "it can't be done.” — Amey Hegde Copy Share Image
It's been important to me to be a good activist, a good thinker, a good musician, a good singer, and a good… — Holly Near Copy Share Image
Behind the October Revolution there are more influential personalities than the thinkers and executors of Marxism. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image