Thinker

Examples

• But the thinker, the man who devotes himself to scientific inquiry and philosophic speculation, works, so to speak, in reason, not simply by *. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But if the thinker sees at all deeply into the life of his own time, his theoretical system will rest upon observation of human nature. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• A moment later he was the cold and practical thinker once more. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The host of men who stand between a great thinker and the average man are not automatic transmitters. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• He was a fertile and stimulating thinker, and much of his great influence arose from the comprehensiven ess that led to his celebrated classification of the sciences. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• He was far more of a constructive political thinker than Gautama or Lao Tse. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• You puncture me when I become a great Italian thinker. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Not a thinker. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The history of invention often shows that some great thinker, or school of thinkers, has stated a scientific conclusion that generations of later men have never dared to question. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• His closest friends were two highly talented brothers, Faizi and Abul Fazl, the sons of a learned free-thinker. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• That boy is young, but a thinker; his meditative eye shines on me strangely sometimes. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Unless you get at that you remain forever foreign to the thinker. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I have called this misplaced rationality a piece of learned folly, because it shows itself most dangerously among those thinkers about politics who are divorced from action. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Mentally he was in a provincial future, that is, he was in many points abreast with the central town thinkers of his date. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• A considerable school of political thinkers in Britain was disposed to regard overseas possessions as a source of weakness to the kingdom. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• While in some respects he unavoidably falls short of modern thinkers, in others he is in advance of them. Plato. The Republic.
• When standing before certain men the philosopher regrets that thinkers are but perishable tissue, the artist that perishable tissue has to think. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• This has always been the method of great political thinkers from Plato to Bentham. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The history of invention often shows that some great thinker, or school of thinkers, has stated a scientific conclusion that generations of later men have never dared to question. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• As to the Whigs, a man who goes with the thinkers is not likely to be hooked on by any party. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Your sex are not thinkers, you know--varium et mutabile semper--that kind of thing. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• So he writes that the thinkers of the past, from Plato to Bentham and Mill, had each his own view of human nature, and they made these views the basis of their speculations on government. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Thus she was a girl of some forwardness of mind, indeed, weighed in relation to her situation among the very rearward of thinkers, very original. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Like many other thinkers both in ancient and modern times his mind seems to be filled with a vacant form which he is unable to realize. Plato. The Republic.
• These _aper?us_ left over from the great speculations are the golden threads which successive thinkers weave into the pattern of their thought. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• That much and no more seemed to many thinkers in the early part of the nineteenth century to be the limit set to overseas rule. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• You may say that all the thinkers of influence have been writing advice to the Prince. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

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