145 adjectives to describe thinker

It has on several occasions engaged the attention of our profoundest thinkers for not less than two consecutive minutes.

The intent in every Christian community is to boycott and make a social outcast of the independent thinker.

Some of the most advanced thinkers in modern physical science, in the endeavour to probe the great mystery of the first origin of the world, have postulated the formation of what they call "vortex rings" formed from an infinitely fine primordial substance.

While yet but a boy in college he became deeply interested in the murmurings of Virginia gentlemen against English misgovernment in the Colonies, and early became known as a vigorous thinker and writer with republican tendencies.

Of a passionate and imaginative nature, Bruno was not an essentially creative thinker, but borrowed the ideas which he proclaimed with burning enthusiasm and lofty eloquence, and through which he has exercised great influence on later philosophy, from Telesius and Nicolas, complaining the while that the priestly garb of the latter sometimes hindered the free movement of his thought.

The Church cannot afford to be without the scientific thinkers of the race.

Here we have yet again a mystical thread running radiant athwart both warp and woof of our poetic web: the mystical thinker will ever be found the reviver of religious poetry; and although some of the seed had come from afar both in time and space, Byrom's verse is of indigenous growth.

The first and greatest of American philosophical thinkers was the Calvinistic theologian Jonathan Edwards (1703-58; treatise on the Freedom of Will, 1754; Works, 10 vols., edited by Dwight, 1830).

Ruling religious thinkers should also, by and by, become leaders of national thought and life.

Many keen thinkers are concerned over the question of population.

But ambitious young men, chafing under the restraints of consecrated respectability, popular politicians, or as we might almost say the demagogues, the progressive and restless people and liberal thinkers enamored of French philosophy and theories and abstractions, were inclined to be Republicans.

He may be a good story-teller, yet a shallow thinker and a slip-shod writer.

The triple thinkers.

Consciousness is caused by the cooperation of billions of internal thinkers.

The imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself.

They furnished no anchor for such an earnest thinker as Augustine.

But he was not an original genius, or a bold and independent thinker like Luther, so he was not emancipated from the ideas of his age.

Hobbes, who was perhaps the most brilliant English thinker of the seventeenth century, was a freethinker and materialist.

Of all the English artists of that day with whom I became acquainted, Pyne impressed me as by a considerable measure the broadest thinker, and, except Turner in his water-color, the ablest landscape painter; old John Linnell in this respect standing nearest him in technical power, with a more complete devotion to nature and her sentiment.

But the case of the mere thinker, the man of inaction, whose sphere of achievement is for the most part a little room, and who produces his effects in a great measure in silence or solitude, is a very different one.

Under the leadership of old revolutionary thinkers like Bebel it has failed to adapt itself to the facts of modern German life.

Merman's reputation as a sober thinker, a safe writer, a sound lawyer, was irretrievably injured: the distractions of controversy had caused him to neglect useful editorial connections, and indeed his dwindling care for miscellaneous subjects made his contributions too dull to be desirable.

Among the "Beacon Lights" of the age there can be no question that Ruskin is worthy of an exalted place, since few men of our modern time, rich as it is in eminent thinkers and writers, has done more than he to illumine the many subjects with which he has so fascinatingly dealt,and that not only in art and its cult of the Beautiful, but in ethics, education, and political economy.

Both Marshall and Haywood did excellent work; the former was an able writer, the latter was a student, and (like the Kentucky historian Mann Butler) a sound political thinker, devoted to the Union, and prompt to stand up for the right.

France is the land of mathematical, England of practical, Germany of speculative thinkers; the first is the home of the skeptics, though of the enthusiasts as well; the second, of the realists; the third, of the idealists.

145 adjectives to describe  thinker