Thinker

Famous quotes containing the word thinker:

“Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“We should omit a main attraction in these books, if we said nothing of their humor. Of this indispensable pledge of sanity, without some leaven of which the abstruse thinker may justly be suspected of mysticism, fanaticism, or insanity, there is a superabundance in Carlyle.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The thinker as reader reads what has been written.
He wears the words he reads to look upon
Within his being....”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)