Top 27 Greatest Thinkers Quotes
#1. The world's greatest thinkers have often been amateurs; for high thinking is the outcome of fine and independent living, and for that a professional chair offers no special opportunities.
Havelock Ellis
#2. It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.
Max Planck
#3. 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.
James Daly
#4. The greatest thinkers in history certainly knew the value of shifting the mind into low gear. Charles Darwin described himself as a slow thinker. Einstein was famous for spending ages staring into space in his office at Princeton University.
Carl Honore
#5. The world glows all the time. All of the things that you have come to understand aren't. The greatest thinkers in the world see very little compared to the enlightened.
Frederick Lenz
#6. Although we had been warned by some of the greatest political thinkers of the nineteenth century, by Tocqueville and Lord Acton, that socialism means slavery, we have steadily moved in the direction of socialism.
Friedrich Hayek
#7. If something comes along that is totally outside of horror, fine, but I find there's an immense amount of freedom within the genre.
Wes Craven
#8. I dropped a word from the string of negative adjectives that had trailed behind me like tin cans behind the village idiot. Unappreciated, unloved, unmarried. But no longer unpublished.
Francine Prose
#9. Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.
Orson Scott Card
#10. 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
#11. The greatest thinker we can ever think of is Jesus Christ. He knew how to make His contenders ponder in awe
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#12. It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.
Lafcadio Hearn
#13. Throughout human history, our greatest leaders and thinkers have used the power of words to transform our emotions, to enlist us in their causes, and to shape the course of destiny. Words can not only create emotions, they create actions. And from our actions flow the results of our lives.
Tony Robbins
#14. Everything's getting homogenized. It seems to me like music and behavior and everything else is getting homogenized.
Dick Van Dyke
#15. In the wild, a mother and daughter stay together until one of them dies.
Jodi Picoult
#16. I've found that people reveal nothing of their true selves except within their art and their sin." ~ Dacey Sinnett, 'ROAM
Dez Schwartz
#17. Eating a peach is like eating a newborn baby's head. In that it's all soft and fuzzy. Not that peaches taste like babies. I don't eat babies. Or peaches, actually. Because they remind me of eating babies. Vicious circle, really.
Jenny Lawson
#18. Christ is the most unique person of history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and foremost place to the penniless Teacher of Nazareth.
H.G.Wells
#19. in the end, everyone can understand themselves only. You are the only one to which you never have to explain what you mean. Everything else is misunderstanding.
Renate Dorrestein
#20. Dreamers and thinkers believe in innovative ideas and they become the greatest students of all time.
Euginia Herlihy
#21. It takes a certain brashness to attack the accepted economic legendsbut noneat all toperpetuatethem. So theyare perpetuated.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#23. I bet you feel uncomfortable right now. You know, so do I. It's hard to talk about this stuff without offending people, or feeling offended.
Jodi Picoult
#24. 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.
Kabir Bedi
#25. I've become quite comfortable with being misunderstood.
D.L. Roan
#26. Said I'll make it big when, everybody know me
Well, I made it big and, everybody phony
Mac Miller
#27. You don't go through a deep personal transformation without some kind of dark night of the soul.
Sam Keen