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"No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead. Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study, and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think." »John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
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"That orgy of wishful thinking that has passed for logic in the present century." »F.W. Lawvere
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"Religion is an illusion, and it derives its strength from its readiness to fit in with our instinctual wishful impulses." »Sigmund Freud
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"There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self." »Demosthenes
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"There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases; it is the easiest thing of all to deceive one's self." »Demosthenes, Olynthiac
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"Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor." »Sren Kierkegaard
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"Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution." »Bertrand Russell
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"The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible." »Anonymous
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"The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal." »William Lippmann
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"The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal but ideas are immortal." »Richard Adams
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"It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism." »H. P. Lovecraft
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"A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all." »Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 41
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"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth - only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair." »Clive Staples Lewis
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"The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion-these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness." »Jerome Seymour Bruner
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"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." »Theodore Parker
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"In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman." »David M. Ogilvy
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"Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost." »Thomas J. Watson
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"Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him" »Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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"Anyone who clings to the historically untrue - and thoroughly immoral - doctrine that violence never settles anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forgot this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and there freedoms." »Robert Heinlein
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"The fathers of the field had been pretty confusing: John von Neumann speculated about computers and the human brain in analogies sufficiently wild to be worthy of a medieval thinker, and Alan Turing thought about criteria to settle the question of whether machines can think, a question of which we now know that it is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim." »Professor Edsger Dijkstra, at the ACN South Central Regional Conference, Austin, Texas, 16 to 18 Novemver 1984
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