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Someone who delays having an opinion just long enough to seem wise.
means A person who engages seriously in reasoning, reflection, or the development of ideas.
from Straightforward stuff: 'think' traces back to Old English 'þencan,' tangled up with a related verb 'þyncan' meaning 'to seem,' both rooted in an ancient Germanic base tied to thought and perception — so even at the word's root, thinking and seeming were already close cousins. Add the agent suffix '-er,' which has marked 'one who does X' since Old English, and you get 'one who thinks' — though the suffix has always been generous enough to flatter people who mostly just pause dramatically.
- rodin statue
- actually depicts a man straining, not relaxing
- risk
- overthinking mimics productivity without the output
- origin
- from thinc, old english for to seem or appear
- tell
- prefers questions that make answering someone else's job