Thinkers

Examples

• 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.
• Almost all the thinkers seem to regard their systems as true and binding, and none of these systems are. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I returned to the sophomore mood: Each of these thinkers has contributed something, has had some wisdom about events. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I do not wish to suggest too much unanimity in the hundreds of artists and thinkers that are making the thought of our times. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The desire for self-direction has made a thousand philosophies as contradictory as the temperaments of the thinkers. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• He was the precursor of that large and various school of collectivist thinkers in the nineteenth century who are lumped together as Socialists. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• We who know how many more men of business there are in the world than real students or thinkers, are not equally sanguine. Plato. The Republic.
• What a robust people, what a nation of thinkers we might be, if we would only lay ourselves on the shelf occasionally and renew our edges! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

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