Those whom he is said to have influenced include the early 17th century thinkers, Yu Hyeong-won (1622-1673) and Yun Jeung (尹拯, 1629-1714).

He had many Jewish students, supported their quest for faculty positions, and greatly admired the 18th century thinker, Moses Mendelssohn.

Physiocrats, a group of 18th century French thinkers and writers, developed the idea of the economy as a circular flow of income and output.

The battle was so decisively won by Newton that it is hard to conceive of any twentieth century thinker taking Goethe's speculations seriously.

To inspire 21st century thinkers.

Like many 17th century liberal thinkers, he distrusted both hereditary power and democracy.

The obvious shortcomings, such as those mentioned above, with the blending inheritance model were not completely lost to every 19th century thinker.

So strong was his influence that many other 19th century thinkers, including Émile Durkheim, defined their ideas in relation to his.

The renowned nineteenth century thinker of the Hungarian age of reform, Count Széchenyi, said that anyone who covers up trouble increases it.

The 9th century thinker Paschasius Radbertus wrote: "Everything is the more perfect, the more it resembles God."