Great thinkers Quote by Umberto Eco Download Open image “Every great thinker is someone else's moron.” — Umberto Eco ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Great thinkers Insult Moron Thinker
No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Not many people carry out thoughts they know going into it are stupid…morons not included. (Apollymi) — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Whatever it took to get elected president of the United States, I don't think being a complete and utter moron is one of those… — James Woods Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“This has nothing to do with realism (even if it explains also realism). A completely real world can be constructed, in which asses fly… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“…there’s nothing in this world that demands more caution than the truth. To tell the truth is like leeching one’s own heart...” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“No algorithm exists for the metaphor, nor can a metaphor be produced by means of a computer’s precise instructions, no matter what the volume… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100 degrees centigrade in plastic thermos cups, usually obligatory in railroad stations… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don't… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
They say that a cat, if it falls from a window and hits its nose, can lose its sense of smell and then, because… — Umberto Eco 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
