what causes one to become "a great thinker"?faith..or education?or what? please advise.thanks?

Question

do you think that some great thinkers were chosen by god before their birth?
what could have happened if Newton or Eonstein
were born in another family or town?
could tolestoy creat "war and peace" if he had been born in alaska?

Answer 1

pure sheer genius or intelligence!

Answer 2

Curiosity. A need to know. A need to figure things out for one's self. It is a need to stop believing what others tell you. You do not have to have faith in anything to have a need to really see the world through your own eyes, your own interpretation. Same with an education. Remember, Einstein was considered stupid as a young man. Curiosity made him a great man, and a great thinker. And another thing, you won't find any great thinker following Al Gore, or George Bush, or any other know it all.

Answer 3

Thinkers like myself are simply born with the apparent ability to ponder the world around them as if analyzing a movie or script. They have the desire to learn about things that have no effect on them. Being a thinker is a hard way to live and most thinkers feel disconnected, and suffer from paranoia.

Answer 4

The sorrow, despair and regret in the aged, old people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Maslow
'Maslow felt that unfulfilled needs lower on the ladder would inhibit the person from climbing to the next step. Someone dying of thirst quickly forgets their thirst when they have no oxygen, as he pointed out. People who dealt in managing the higher needs were what he called self-actualizing people. Benedict and Wertheimer were Maslow's models of self-actualization, from which he generalized that, among other characteristics, self-actualizing people tend to focus on problems outside of themselves, have a clear sense of what is true and what is phony, are spontaneous and creative, and are not bound too strictly by social conventions.

Peak experiences are profound moments of love, understanding, happiness, or rapture, when a person feels more whole, alive, self-sufficient and yet a part of the world, more aware of truth, justice, harmony, goodness, and so on. Self-actualizing people have many such peak experiences.'

Socrates returned from the oracle of Delphi wondering how and why he was to be the wisest.

'Socrates frequently says that his ideas are not his own, but his teachers'. He mentions several influences: Prodicus the rhetor and Anaxagoras the scientist. Perhaps surprisingly, Socrates claims to have been deeply influenced by two women besides his mother. He says that Diotima, a witch and priestess from Mantinea taught him all he knows about eros, or love, and that Aspasia, the mistress of Pericles, taught him the art of funeral orations.'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates#Philosophical_beliefs

Perhaps I have mistaken......

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_of_Delphi#Oracle

Answer 5

High degree of intelligence, great deal of common sense, sharp logic and reasoning, and endless passion for knowledge.

A great thinker might happen to have faith. But faith does not make a great thinker. In fact in many cases faith shuts down logic and reasoning.

Answer 6

I think it's a gift from God to every individual. Men are born equal but this depends on which talents they develop well through education. Environment too is a factor of this development.

So in your question, "what causes one to become "a great thinker" When a child is born, he/she doesn't have faith, this is developed through education and is nurtured by their environment.

Answer 7

both religion and education promote the acceptance of how others think.... a great thinker is made by going through life learning from life's experience... without either religion or education to inhibit your action, your behavior, your thoughts, without religion making you afraid of trying something THEY say you can't... We learn from our experience, and it's experience that make great thinkers...

Answer 8

INTEREST IN THE QUEST FOR TRUTH! no great people decide their lives themselves another fact is astrology and that everything is decided before an individual is born and his destination is fixed ACCORDING TO INTERNAL FAITH everything rests inside the individual aACCORDING TO UNIVERSAL TRUTH everything is decided before

Answer 9

You might appreciate http://www.megagenius.com and
http://www.divinecosmos.com
and "Climb the Highest Mountain," Mark Prophet, and "The Path of Virtue," Jonathan Murro.

Answer 10

An internal drive for knowledge. It can only be fostered so much by education. And can be hindered by Faith. I'm not saying that one should not have faith, but should definitely always be questioning his/her beliefs.

Answer 11

Ricky Bobby isn't a thinker, Ricky Bobby is a driver.