Thinkers Quotes. C.N. Douglas, comp. 1917. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical

C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Thinkers


Those who have finished by making all others think with them, have usually been those who began by daring to think with themselves. Colton.	1
The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial. Earl of Beaconsfield.	2
A thinker is a person. Joseph Cook.	3
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Emerson.	4
In every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world? Carlyle.	5
The greater part of mankind may be divided into two classes; that of shallow thinkers who fall short of the truth; and that of abstruse thinkers who go beyond it. Hume.	6
There are very few original thinkers in the world; the greatest part of those who are called philosophers have adopted the opinions of some who went before them. Dugald Stewart.	7
Thinkers are scarce as gold; but he whose thoughts embrace all his subject, and who pursues it uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences, is a diamond of enormous size. Lavater.	8