Top 1200 Great Thinkers Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Thinkers are not a welcome addition to most social situations.

Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.

Missionaries, whether of philosophy or religion, rarely make rapid way, unless their preachings fall in with the prepossessions ofthe multitude of shallow thinkers, or can be made to serve as a stalking-horse for the promotion of the practical aims of the still larger multitude, who do not profess to think much, but are quite certain they want a great deal.

Like all former thinkers, I'm writing a book.

There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.

James Lovelock is one of the great thinkers of our time. His ideas and inventions have opened up new insights into our planet and the way it works, and the story behind them will appeal to a very wide audience. I am pleased to recommend this book.

Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.

Quite naturally, the men who led in stirring up the revolt against Great Britain and in keeping the fighting temper of the Revolutionists at the proper heat were the boldest and most radical thinkers - men like Samuel Adams, Thomas Paine, Patrick Henry, and Thomas Jefferson.

[Our system of education ]not designed to create critical thinkers.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery.

I thought I knew who Alan Turing was. I've always loved history, and I was actually shocked by how little I actually knew. I was amazed this wasn't common knowledge. Why wasn't he on the front covers of my history books? He's one of the great thinkers of the last century, and he was sort of pushed into the shadows.

Not only do you need great lyrics, a great message, a great story, great vocals, great chords... you also need great instrumentation, great editing, great sonics, great mixing, and great mastering. It all comes together to make something truly great, and I think each element combines together to create a powerful impact on the consumer.

Tom DeLay fears independent thinkers and fighters. I am both.

Thinkers, makers and traders are the DNA of the world class company

Thinkers perish, thoughts don't.

Each part of the mind sees only a little of what happens in some others, and that little is swiftly refined, reformulated and "represented." We like to believe that these fragments have meanings in themselves - apart from the great webs of structure from which they emerge - and indeed this illusion is valuable to us qua thinkers - but not to us as psychologists - because it leads us to think that expressible knowledge is the first thing to study.

We wouldn't be successful if we didn't have independent thinkers who can argue and then resolve their arguments.

Politicians cannot create jobs or wealth. Such is axiomatic to straight thinkers.

It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect.

The Warrior listens to the words of certain thinkers.

Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.

There are those, of course, who deny that they need any form of authority. They are the popular atheists and agnostics. Such men say that they must be shown by 'reason' whatever they are to accept as true. But the great thinkers among non-Christian men have taken no such position. They know that they cannot cover the whole area of reality with their knowledge.

Osho is one of India's greatest mystics.... I see him as one of the world's great teachers, thinkers, philosophers and guides of our times. I have enormous respect for his world vision and the kind of International Communities he is building. I have always felt his influence in my life.

Since the Greeks the predominant attitude of thinkers towards intellectual activity was to glorify it insofar as (like aesthetic activity) it finds its satisfaction in itself, apart from any attention to the advantages it may procure. Most thinkers would have agreed with Renan's verdict that the man who loves science for its fruits commits the worst of blasphemies against that divinity. The modern clercs have violently torn up this charter. They proclaim the intellectual functions are only respectable to the extent that they are bound up with the pursuit of concrete advantage.

Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea They thought great thoughts about liberty Poets wrote down words that did fit Writers wrote books Thinkers thought about it.

It is doubtful whether our present system of popular education does not retard independent or self thinking as much as it promotes it. All genuine education is self-education. It will incite the individual to think for himself, by rethinking what the race's great thinkers have already thought for him, thus enabling him to go ahead under his own mental steam.

The sexiest people are thinkers.

The time for thinkers has come.

I don't want to be an athlete so much. I groove more with artists and deep thinkers.

Christianity in the West, opens up a perspective of depth into what it means to be a self. And that depth of the self is something that is experienced in the sight of God. So that the great thinkers of self and subjectivity are Paul and Augustine. They look at the self from the perspective of God and they find themselves wretched and interesting. Constituted by conflictual desires.

Readers are leaders. Thinkers succeed.

Clearly, Enlightenment thinkers were seeking a God substitute.

The talkers are rising above the thinkers.

Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.

Comedians are thinkers. The best ones are akin to philosophers, in my opinion.

Thinkers prepare the revolution and bandits carry it out.

Why should thinkers mock the simple pieties of the people?

I miss being exposed to the leading thinkers of the world.

Certainly the research shows that grateful people are more innovative thinkers.

Independent thinkers are usually geniuses or idiots and at times it's hard to tell which.

The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.

Climbing has so much more culture than all other activities put together. There is no culture in tennis, just a few names, a few dates. No big culture in soccer. But we have thousands of books, great philosophers, thinkers, painters.

Great thinkers think inductively, that is, they create solution and then seek out the problems that solution might solve; most companies think deductively, that is, defining a problem and then investigating different solutions.

Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory of probabilities- that theory to which the most glorious objects of human research are indebted for the most glorious of illustration.

Even in a hierarchy people can be equal as thinkers.

Thinkers do not accept the inevitable; they turn their efforts toward changing it.

We learn that many great thinkers were convinced that the Bible contained the Ancient Mysteries, but not in the literal words—that the words on the pages were codes, and that the Bible is comprised of heavy-handed and useless story covering up something much more important and interesting. I get the feeling that [Dan Brown] is trying to tell me something, but I am not biting, reader.

Thinkers are as scarce as gold.

I've participated at summits where I was the only chef. I was surrounded with thinkers and writers and innovators.

We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall, and in our hearts we know that we, too, are transitory and will soon disappear. When artists create pictures and thinkers search for laws and formulate thoughts, it is in order to salvage something from the great dance of death, to make something last longer than we do.

Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.

Let's teach our children to be thinkers.

Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation.

There is a real connection between culture and climate change. We all have a part to play and if you engage with life, you will get a new set of values, get off the consumer treadmill, and start to think, and it is these great thinkers who will rescue the planet.

You can have a team of unconventional thinkers, as well as conventional thinkers. If you don't have the support of others you cannot achieve anything altogether on your own. It's like a cry in the wilderness. In each instance there were others who could see the same thing, and there were others who could not. It's an obvious difference we see in those who you might say have a bird's eye view, and those who have a worm's eye view. I've come to realize that we all have a different mind set, we all see things differently, and that's what the human condition is really all about.

Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience.

Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.

Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas.