Saturday, September 13, 2025

Will Durant's 10 Greatest Thinkers

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🌏 Confucius (551–479 BCE) – Chinese philosopher

  • “It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.”

  • “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

  • “When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, do not adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.”


🏛️ Plato (427–347 BCE) – Greek philosopher

  • “The greatest wealth is to live content with little.”

  • “An unexamined life is not worth living.”

  • “Courage is knowing what not to fear.”


🏛️ Aristotle (384–322 BCE) – Greek philosopher

  • “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”

  • “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

  • “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”


✝️ Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) – Christian theologian, philosopher

  • “To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.”

  • “The things that we love tell us what we are.”

  • “Wonder is the desire of knowledge.”


🌌 Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) – Astronomer, mathematician

  • “To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.”

  • “Mathematics is written for mathematicians.”

  • “Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe.”


📚 Sir Francis Bacon (1561–1626) – English philosopher, father of empiricism

  • “Knowledge is power.”

  • “A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”

  • “Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”


🔭 Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727) – Physicist, mathematician

  • “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”

  • “I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.”

  • “Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.”


✒️ Voltaire (1694–1778) – French Enlightenment writer

  • “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”

  • “Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”

  • “Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.”


🧠 Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) – German philosopher

  • “Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”

  • “Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law.”

  • “Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination.”


🌱 Charles Darwin (1809–1882) – Naturalist, father of evolutionary theory

  • “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

  • “Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.”

  • “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”

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