9 sentences with 'thinker'
Example sentences and phrases with the word thinker and other words derived from it.
• « The most important thinker to address the intersection of Christian and classical learning was St. Augustine of Hippo (a Roman city in North Africa), whose life spanned the late fourth and early fifth centuries. »
• « A girl educated in the Renaissance was trained to be an obedient wife and companion, not an independent thinker in her own right. »
• « Christine de Pizan (1364 - 1430): Christine de Pizan was the most famous and important woman thinker and writer of the Renaissance era. »
• « De Maistre's ideas may have looked back to the social and political thought of past centuries, but Burke was a very grounded and realistic thinker. »
• « The first, state socialism, is represented by the French thinker and agitator Louis Blanc. Blanc believed that social reform had to come from above. »
• « Many of the great Russian novelists spent at least part of their lives in Siberia as a result; even Dostoevsky, who ended up as a deeply conservative thinker hostile to radical, or even disruptive, politics, spent part of his life in exile. »
• « Such claims go back centuries; perhaps the first clear feminist thinker in Western society was the Renaissance courtesan Christine de Pizan, and later feminists such as Mary Wollstonecraft explicitly linked the feminist claim to equality with the revolutionary promise of the American and French Revolutions of the late 18th century. »