Conclusion Quote by John Stuart Mill

“No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize, that as a thinker his first duty is to follow his intellect wherever…

— John Stuart Mill

Every great thinker is someone else's moron.

— Umberto Eco

Any positive thinker is compelled to see everything in the light of his own convictions.

— Antoinette Brown Blackwell

From Gadamer I learned that to understand a given thinker requires one to presuppose that he is right.

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

A new thinker is only one who does not know what the old thinkers have thought

— Frank Moore Colby

“Seldom do people think things through foolishly. More often, they do not bother to think things through at all, so that even brainy individuals…

— Thomas Sowell

“Careful attention to thinking is what first sets the leader apart. We introduced this idea in the chapter on convictional intelligence, but here we…

— Albert Mohler

The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.

— Edward de Bono

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

— Helen Keller

A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought.

— Frank Moore Colby

It is the hardest thing in the world to be a good thinker without being a good self examiner.

— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

He who in reasoning cites authority is making use of his memory rather than of his intellect.

— Leonardo da Vinci