Quotes about thinking
552 quotes from 279 people
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Letter to Morris Raphael Cohen, professor emeritus of philosophy at the College of the City of New York, defending the appointment of Bertrand Russell to a teaching position (19 March 1940).The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels.
Albert Einstein1879–1955“Atomic Education Urged by Einstein”, The New York Times (25 May 1946)Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else—unless it is an enemy.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Essay to Leo Baeck (1953), Ideas and Opinions- Albert Einstein1879–1955Letter to Dr. H. L. Gordon (May 3, 1949—AEA 58-217) as quoted in Einstein: His Life and Universe (2007) by Walter Isaacson
- Albert Einstein1879–1955Essay to Leo Baeck (1953)
- Albert Einstein1879–1955Obituary for Emmy Noether (1935)
- Albert Einstein1879–1955Letter to Morris Raphael Cohen, professor emeritus of philosophy at the College of the City of New York, defending the appointment of Bertrand Russell to a teaching position (19 March 1940).
- Albert Einstein1879–1955Cosmic Religion: With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931), p. 97
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969Remarks at the Dartmouth College Commencement Exercises (14 June 1953)The world moves, and ideas that were good once are not always good.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969Press Conference, Washington, D.C.
George Eliot1819–1880Adam Bede (1859)Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the ShadowThe mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.
