Thought Leaders Quotes

The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.

Men of thought seldom work well together, whereas between men of action there is usually an easy camaraderie.

Many of the world’s great movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the work of a single man.

I would love to have a long and serious conversation with the Pope. And Woody Allen, whom I have never interviewed. Then, after those two? Steve Jobs.

I think of Twitter as the place where I go to have a great conversation when I can't have one locally, which seems to be all the time, and the more time that I spend on Twitter, the more I sort of curate this incredible group of very intelligent people that I just get to know purely through the quality of their thoughts.

Professional intellectuals are the voice of a culture and are, therefore, its leaders, its integrators and its bodyguards.

Many people - especially those people who earn livings by convincing editors and bookers that rich and influential strangers consider their thoughts and opinions interesting - have ideas about who should or should not run for president.

The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men's thinking about themselves.

For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.

Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

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

Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists.

At Shutterstock, we've been offering tutorials to customers and contributors on our blog for many years. Our audience already viewed us as thought leaders on the latest digital and creative skills; we felt it so natural for us to launch Skillfeed, which is an online marketplace for professional learning.

I'm an activist and I come from a very socialist background. For me, my thinking was formed by great thought leaders. And wealth preserving wasn't part of my thinking.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It's made up of pioneers, the beginners. That's where the action is.

A society without intellectuals is like a body without a head

Intellectuals (in the standard sense of the term, not [ Edward] Said's prescriptive sense) are the people who write history.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

So many of the great thought leaders that have shaped economics - Gary Becker, Milton Friedman - what an unbelievable success story they've had in their field.

For me, I always admire anyone that's entrepreneurs or inventors.

The trouble with me is, I belong to a vanishing race. I'm one of the intellectuals.

Throughout history, people with new ideas—who think differently and try to change things—have always been called troublemakers.

Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

If you dig deep and keep peeling the onion, artists and freelance writers are the leaders in society - the people who start to get new ideas out.

The role of social media is critical because it helps to spread cognitive dissonance by connecting thought leaders and activists to ordinary citizens rapidly expanding the network of people who become willing to take action.