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In every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world? - Thomas Carlyle A thinker is a person. - Joseph Cook The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 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. - David Hume 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. - Johann Kaspar Lavater (John Caspar Lavater) There are very few original thinkers in the world, or ever have been; the greatest part of those who are called philosophers, have adopted the opinions of some who went before them. - Dugald Stewart
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