Person with a powerful mind

Usage examples of thinker.

The Antitrinitarians were no more deists or free thinkers than were the Lutherans.

Now, in contrast to the Occidental thinker, who covets alternation because in his cold climate action is the means of enjoyment, the Hindu, in the languid East, where repose is the condition of enjoyment, conceives the highest blessedness to consist in exemption from every disturbance, in an unruffled unity excluding all changes.

Can HE be the large and patient thinker, the delicate humourist, the impassioned poet?

The fast-burning primitive thinkers descended from the African plains apes may have vanished completely or transcended their fleshy architecture before the solar Matrioshka brain is finished.

But as he matured as a thinker and an artist he realized it would be more valuable to test his ideas than merely to reiterate them, and to generate vivid negative images rather than advance positive propositions.

But the Mouser and Fafhrd merely exclaimed in mild, muted amazement at the stars and cautiously zigzagging across the Street of the Thinkers, called Atheist Avenue by moralists, continued up Plague Court until it forked.

Impartial looker-on sees clearer than the player Learn to obey, that later you may know how to command Man has nothing harder to endure than uncertainty Many creditors are so many allies One should give nothing up for lost excepting the dead Our thinkers are no heroes, and our heroes are no sages Overbusy friends are more damaging than intelligent enemies Prepare sorrow when we come into the world The experienced love to signify their superiority We quarrel with no one more readily than with the benefactor UARDA Volume 4.

If the leading theologians of Christendom, such as Anselm, Calvin, and Grotius, have so thoroughly repudiated the original Christian and patristic doctrine of the atonement, and built another doctrine upon their own uninspired speculations, why should our modern sects defer so slavishly to them, and, instead of freely investigating the subject for themselves from the first sources of Scripture and spiritual philosophy, timidly cling to the results reached by these biassed, morbid, and over sharp thinkers?

Smartest Company Selects the Most Creative Thinkers ISBN: 0316919160 Author: William Poundstone Title: How Would You Move Mount Fuji?

She had been the companion of Aesoe the Prime Predictor and Hoemei the Thinker Who Could Act.

Many thinkers have followed Foucault along these lines and successfully problematized the welfare state.

As lepidopterologist and artist, as chess problemist and thinker, Nabokov knows that there is no substitute for experiencing for oneself the shock and the joy of discovery.

We have often as good hearts, ay, and as much good nature, too, as the careful prosers who utter nothing but what is right, or the heavy thinkers who have too little fancy to say anything that is wrong.

It now becomes necessary to take a survey of the present theological movements, and to show in what relations the Rationalistic and evangelical thinkers stand to each other.

The only way to combat them is not by reviewing the opinions of departed thinkers and teachers, so much as by going directly back to the Bible itself, and looking at it with the aid of every new step in science.