Thinker

Famous quotes containing the word thinker:

“How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books?”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“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)