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For the individual, as I can testify, a brief grounding in semantics, besides making philosophy unreadable, makes unreadable most political speeches, classical economic theory, after-dinner oratory, diplomatic notes, newspaper editorials, treatises on pedagogics and education, expert financial comment, dissertations on money and credit, accounts of debates, and Great Thoughts from Great Thinkers in general. You would be surprised at the amount of time this saves. -- Stuart Chase
Every great thinker keeps a journal, you know. -- Trenton Lee Stewart
All great thinkers are initially ridiculed - and eventually revered. -- Robin Sharma
Great thinkers often learn, to their surprise, that new ideas are less than welcome. -- Gerd Gigerenzer
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education. -- William James
First doubt, then inquire, then discover. This has been the process with all our great thinkers. -- Henry Thomas Buckle
If only our great thinkers could learn to talk, and our great talkers could learn to think. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
Darwin paid particular attention to disconfirming evidence. Objectivity maintenance routines are totally required in life if you're going to be a great thinker. -- Charlie Munger
Not every President is a great speaker. Not every President is a great thinker. But in the modern era, every single President is a master of one thing: eye contact. -- Brad Meltzer
Bill Clinton was a very, very good speaker. But like many people who are great speakers and great thinkers and have a lot of energy and ambition, he talked too much. -- Robert Reich
The host of men who stand between a great thinker and the average man are not automatic transmitters. They work on the ideas; perhaps that is why a genius usually hates his disciples. -- Walter Lippmann
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. -- Joey Reiman
There is little doubt that the majority of Mr. Mills supporters in 1865 did not know what his political opinions were, and that they voted for him simply on his reputation as a great thinker. -- Millicent Fawcett
Through books you can start today where the great thinkers of yesterday left off, because books have immortalized man's knowledge. Thinkers, dead a thousand years, are as alive in their books today as when they walked the earth. -- Wilferd Peterson
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 about like those things one sees when looking at a drop of water under a microscope. -- Woody Allen
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo. -- Soren Kierkegaard
The small are always dependent on the great; they are "small" precisely because they think they are independent. The great thinker is one who can hear what is greatest in the work of other "greats" and who can transform it in an original manner. -- Martin Heidegger
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty. -- Pablo Neruda
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. -- Chris Rapley
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. -- Hermann Hesse
I had a friend in college who loved to say: 'If you can dream it, you can do it.' It became my mantra. I assumed it was a pearl of wisdom from some great thinker, a philosopher perhaps, like Descartes. It turned out to be Walt Disney, which in no way diminishes the wisdom of the advice. Anyone who can build a Magic Kingdom deserves to be listened to. -- Michele Gorman
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. -- John C. Maxwell
All great artists and thinkers are great workers. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Considering yourself selflessly selfish is a principle of all great thinkers -- Phil Collins
All of the great mastermind thinkers throughout history have known that we become our thoughts. -- Bryant McGill
The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. -- Henry David Thoreau
The great creators-the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors-stood alone against the men of their time. -- Ayn Rand
Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes. -- Theodor Reik
I just don't think we think about jurists as rock stars or great thinkers, particularly in the political world. -- Dahlia Lithwick
The judges of England have rarely been original thinkers or great jurists. Many have been craftsmen rather than creators. -- Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin
What I notice about people who are gifted in filmmaking is that they're great thinkers. They engage with big ideas and they engage with people. -- Ben Whishaw

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