Great thinkers Quote by Gerd Gigerenzer Download Open image “Great thinkers often learn, to their surprise, that new ideas are less than welcome.” — Gerd Gigerenzer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Great thinkers Ideas New ideas Surprise Thinker Welcome
The pioneering spirit is less about thinking up new ideas, as ridding ourselves of dogmas and habits that hold us captive in thinking. — Bertrand Piccard Copy Share Image
A new thinker is only one who does not know what the old thinkers have thought — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image
All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom. — Hyman Rickover 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
“In every field of human endeavor, the more visionary the work, the less likely it is to be quickly understood and embraced by lesser… — Sean Patrick Copy Share Image
Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking process started, because what you put in… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Inexperienced people can have great ideas too, sometimes far better ones than more experienced people” — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Here's a simple truth: When you surround a good idea with brilliant people, it changes. No matter how much you plan, great ideas have… — Marc Randolph Copy Share Image
Almost always great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Sometimes the great ideas needed for our greatest changes comes not from the great teachers of old, but from our own great ideas. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
“The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop. Mark Twain” — Gerd Gigerenzer Copy Share Image
“Because these calculations generate precise numbers for an uncertain risk, they produce an illusory certainty.” — Gerd Gigerenzer Copy Share Image
Cognition requires going beyond the information given, to make bets and therefore to risk errors. — Gerd Gigerenzer Copy Share Image
I focus on the most important form of innumeracy in everyday life, statistical innumeracy--that is, the inability to reason about uncertainties and risk. — Gerd Gigerenzer Copy Share Image
“In the words of the English philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, “Civilization advances by extending the number of operations which we can perform without thinking… — Gerd Gigerenzer 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 important to… — 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 the qualities… — 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 is some… — 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 means you… — 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 reading; every… — 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 to dart… — 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 that they… — 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 for you.… — 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. Without that… — 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 economic theory,… — 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