Best 150 quotes in «deep thought quotes» category

Their words also make it a lot easier for people to justify that shift -- to convince themselves that surfing the Web is a suitable, even superior, substitute for deep reading and other forms of calm and attentive thought. In arguing that books are archaic and dispensable, Federman and Shirky provide the intellectual cover that allows thoughtful people to slip comfortably in the permanent state of distractedness that defines the online life.

After a lifetime of deep thought, I've decided that life is a distraction, but probably not from anything important.

All these stuff she's done before - the rosary, the deep thoughts, the faux British accent. It's the same thing over and over. She's be so much better if she just retired, and I like Madonna.

ALL IMPULSES OF THOUGHT HAVE A TENDENCY TO CLOTHE THEMSELVES IN THEIR PHYSICAL EQUIVALENT.

All kids are born geniuses, but are crushed by society.

And ah for a man to arise in me, That the man I am may cease to be!

Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.

An idea is a feat of association.

A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.

Arouse in the other person an eager want.

A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.

Art is a line around your thoughts.

Atheism: It seeks to replace in itself the moral power of religion, in order to appease the spiritual thirst of parched humanity and save it; not by Christ, but by force.

At our most elemental, we are not a chemical reaction, but an energetic charge. Human beings and all living things are a coalescence of energy in a field of energy connected to every other thing in the world. This pulsating energy field is the central engine of our being and our consciousness, the alpha and the omega of our existence.

Beauty would save the world.

Deep thoughts (come) from a deep well. Society is useful because when we see ourselves reflected through others we can gain a deeper understanding of ourselves.

Count the cost first. Don’t pay too big a price for pursuing minor values.

But our lives were not as they seemed, were they, Sophia? No one's life ever is.

Don't sacrifice your spirit for wealth. Grow your wealth by first growing your spirit.

Find someone who is willing to share the truth with you.

Haters are like crickets. Crickets make a lot of noise, you hear it but you can’t see them, then right when you walk by them, they’re quiet.

Giving up the illusion that you can predict the future is a very liberating moment. All you can do is give yourself the capacity to respond... the creation of that capacity is the purpose of strategy.

Great marketing only makes a bad product fail faster.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.

Holding back is so close to stealing.

I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world because they'd never expect it.

However good or bad you feel about your relationship, the person you are with at this moment is the "right" person, because he or she is the mirror of who you are inside.

How strange now, looks the life he makes us lead; So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!

I am not superstitious, but the first time I saw this medal, bearing the venerated likeness of John Calvin, I kissed it, imagining that no one saw the action. I was very greatly surprised when I received this magnificent present, which shall be passed round for your inspection. On the one side is John Calvin with his visage worn by disease and deep thought, and on the other side is a verse fully applicable to him: 'He endured, as seeing Him who is invisible.'

I can't really articulate what I feel.

I always thought death was cruel, a silent destroyer of breath, of hope, of life. Now I understand it is physical death, the perception of it, the fear of it, which often saves us; for death marks the end of our flesh causing us to question the future of what we are.

If you start embracing life's storms instead of hiding away from them, you'll stop fearing them all together; it is this way one becomes immovable.

I didn't have any close relationship with him because, although [William Edward Burghardt] DuBois may not have been as egocentric - I don't know - he certainly was not the easiest person to approach. I think, certainly, those of us who were younger sort of respected that in terms of his preoccupation with deep thoughts. So, I made no effort to establish any relationship with him. However, he was in and out then.

If it's still in your mind, it is still in your heart.

If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.

If you so choose, the challenges can make you stronger. If you so choose, the disappointments can make you more determined.

If you want to feel good, be rational.

I don't know what I feel about wearing my furs anymore. I worked so hard to have a fur coat, and I don't want to wear it anymore because I'm so wrapped up in the animals. I have real deep thoughts about it because I care about the world and nature.

If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.

I mean, I can't say that I've had many deep thoughts because I traveled alone, but it's good to be with myself in the quiet.

It could be disastrous to speak your mind while you are deep in thought.

In brief, sir, study what you most affect.

In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.

It is hard to keep that which has not been obtained through personal development.

Just as there is no such thing as a collective or racial mind, so there is no such thing as a collective or racial achievement. There are only individual minds and individual achievements-an d a culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.

It is not defeat that destroys you,it is being demoralized by defeat that destroy you.

It's not so hard to get rich as it is to know when you have gotten rich.

Just beat my record for most consecutive days without dying.