Which preposition to use with thinker

of Occurrences 84%

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

in Occurrences 35%

Long and learned disputes about its nature and requirements occupied great thinkers in times long gone by.

like Occurrences 11%

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.

as Occurrences 9%

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

on Occurrences 8%

Striving, even in an exaggerated degree, to call forth the activity of my faculties, by making me find out everything for myself, he gave his explanations not before, but after, I had felt the full force of the difficulties; and not only gave me an accurate knowledge of these two great subjects, as far as they were then understood, but made me a thinker on both.

for Occurrences 7%

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

with Occurrences 6%

These are some of his gifts; and Shakespeare would not have denied the saying of a thinker with whom he has no very strong or natural affinity, that 'the greatest of these is chari

than Occurrences 5%

A cooler thinker than Aunt Dahlia, I had already guessed the hidden springs and motives which had led him to the roof.

to Occurrences 4%

And the fetish of Patriotism is brandished hither and thither, rallying even free-thinkers to the cause of concealment, while each and every appeal for light and truth is met by the clamorous cry: "Down with the dirty Jews!" *

at Occurrences 3%

In the case of the system of mandates its adoption by the Conference and the conferring on the League of Nations the power to issue mandates seemed at least to the more conservative thinkers at Paris a very doubtful venture.

among Occurrences 2%

It was through Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), who was pre-eminently the thinker among the literary men of his generation, that the new German thought found its way into England.

into Occurrences 2%

Voltaire, whose literary genius converted the work of the English thinkers into a world-force, did not begin his campaign against Christianity till after the middle of the century, when superstitious practices and religious persecutions were becoming a scandal in his country.

from Occurrences 1%

The views of a keen thinker from another land on that and kindred topics deserve to be pondered.

amongst Occurrences 1%

I must trust then to my pen, to the thinkers amongst us, and above all to the good Providence of God, for further success in behalf of the rising generation.

before Occurrences 1%

He softened down the extreme views of the great thinkers before his day, and clearly unfolded what had become obscured.

by Occurrences 1%

It saves infinite waste of time to the thinker by enabling him to know what has already been thought.

during Occurrences 1%

The newspaper, which swayed Goan thinkers during the Opinion Poll, failed to instill a sense of professionalism.

about Occurrences 1%

They are rich in all utterance and all knowledge; that is, they are very brilliant and eloquent talkers about spiritual things, and also very deep and subtle thinkers about spiritual things.

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