Top 1200 Enlightenment Thinkers Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Women are both talented and innovative thinkers and tend to use computer science as a tool to solve larger problems.

Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers.

Politics is not a game for naive thinkers. You may go in as an idealist, but you certainly won't come out as one.

Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.

People who are deep thinkers, who have sort of a weird way of looking at the universe, are wildly attractive to me.

Exceptional thinkers ignore their critics and go about their business making history.

We tend to think of great thinkers and innovators as soloists, but the truth is that the greatest innovative thinking doesn't occur in a vacuum.

Great thinkers often learn, to their surprise, that new ideas are less than welcome.

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

Enlightenment is probably antithetical to impatience.

You know, Americans think that they're such progessive and free thinkers, but we're as uptight as any other country when it comes to speech and language and content.

Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.

Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.

The Founding Fathers were truly some of the most gifted thinkers in history. They understood that power could be used to corrupt.

Enlightenment is a group activity.

The dolphins and whales have a brain that is actually bigger in proportion to their size than we do. They are very complex. They are thinkers.

Enlightenment is lightening up.

Practice and enlightenment are not two.

I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don't acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers.

They say the full potential of the human being is called enlightenment, which is infinite consciousness, infinite happiness, zero negativity, zero dying, complete freedom, total fulfillment, and being at one with everything. You can say it's God realization, or you can say you sit at the feet of the Lord as master of all you survey. You could say it's totality, total knowledge, and that you are that totality. This is every human being's birthright: to one day enjoy supreme enlightenment, unity. It's like the big graduation.

Atheists tend to read only each other’s books and not the work of the religious thinkers they are supposedly refuting.

But hope has an astonishing resilience and strength. Its very persistence in our hearts indicates that it is not a tonic for wishful thinkers but the ground on which realists stand.

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

... the atheists, libertines, despisers of religion ... that is to say all those who usually pass under the name of Free-thinkers.

Masayoshi Son is one of the most innovative and impactful thinkers and problem-solvers of our generation.

My parents were reasoned and deep thinkers. My dad is an intellectual and a literary man.

Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By nature we are laconic speakers and by conviction we are realistic thinkers.

We need true free thinkers, people who really say what they feel and have good, genuine intentions.

Even the most analytical thinkers are predictably irrational; the really smart ones acknowledge and address their irrationalities.

I got to sit down with people who I admired, and have conversations with some of the greatest thinkers and artists and performers. It's a huge privilege for me to be a journalist.

It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters.

It is easy to imagine that the Buddha, the awakened one, is something or somewhere other than here or that awakening to reality will happen sometime other than now. But as long as we continue to think in terms of time we will deceive ourselves. The you who is chasing enlightenment will never become enlightened. Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach, I invite you to stop and ask: How am I avoiding the enlightenment that is already present in each moment? How am I seeing separation where it doesn't exist?

Enlightenment is a destructive process.

We're communicators, we're problem solvers, and we're lateral thinkers, and there's nothing that can't be improved with that. The world needs us, and we want to be needed.

A woman should keep her separateness, should save all her feminine qualities and purify them. In this way she is going, according to her nature, towards enlightenment. Of course once you are enlightened, you have gone beyond the discrimination of sexes. Beyond enlightenment, you are simply human beings. But before that... Be proud of your qualities. Increase them, refine them because they are the path towards godliness. Man is not in a better position than woman as far as religious experience is concerned.

Now, don't get me wrong: I'm not rubbishing penal substitution. But there are other options that have been advocated by Reformed thinkers of the past.

I think we speak to a certain mindset, and it's about, you know, inspiring people who are progressive thinkers who want to see change.

People don't do theology in a vacuum but in a community with other theological thinkers, where there's jealousy, vanity, hurt pride, all those things.

Enlightenment is the food that eats you.

I want people in their 20s to think of 'Swing' the way a generation in the 1960s thought of 'Esquire' - as the voice of young thinkers.

It interests me when I hear people quoting great thinkers, because it's like, OK, but does that make you any brighter?

Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological movements of their day.

So we recast the wisdom of the great thinkers in the shape of our illusions. They are shiny from their makeovers, they are fabulous and gorgeous, and they want us to know that we can have it all.

Thinkers too often disparage men of action in ways that do them no credit.

Behind the October Revolution there are more influential personalities than the thinkers and executors of Marxism.

I believe that our very survival depends upon us becoming better systems thinkers.

It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.

Enlightenment is awakened awareness.

After enlightenment, the laundry.

The great creators-the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors-stood alone against the men of their time.

Enlightenment is not a complete remedy.

Enlightenment is man's leaving his self-caused immaturity. Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. Such immaturity is self-caused if it is not caused by lack of intelligence, but by lack of determination and courage to use one's intelligence without being guided by another. Sapere Aude! Have the courage to use your own intelligence! is therefore the motto of the enlightenment.

If true happiness depended on the thoughts of man, then all philosophers and deep thinkers would be filled to overflowing with it.

Advertising is full of great thinkers. This is a powerful industry and does a lot more than we take credit for.

You can't make a date with enlightenment.

You need good thinkers around you. Without them, you will go broke.

There was this famous clash of civilization thesis from Samuel Huntington, a political theorist. And the idea was that Western civilization is at war with Islam and maybe some of the other civilizations around the world. And I don't agree with that. But I do think there is such a thing as Western civilization. I think it starts with the Greeks and the Romans. Then it goes through the Enlightenment - or the Reformation, the Enlightenment. It goes through the scientific age. And it somewhat defines some of the cultures and mores of Europe and North America and some other countries.

If we allow ourselves to dwell on negatives, on hurts, on mistreatments, we will be negative thinkers. So be open to positive thinking, THINK BIG!

Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.

Movies can be instruments of enlightenment.