Best 150 quotes in «deep thought quotes» category

To the whole world you might be just one person, but to one person you might just be the whole world.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.

Very deep. You should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you.

We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without.

We are the gods of the atoms that make up ourselves but we are also the atoms of the gods that make up the universe.

We must not mistake kindness for weakness. Kindness isn't weak. Kindness is a certain type of strength.

To think deeply in our culture is to grow angry and to anger others; and if you cannot tolerate this anger, you are wasting the time you spend thinking deeply. One of the rewards of deep thought is the hot glow of anger at discovering a wrong, but if anger is taboo, thought will starve to death.

When I have listened to my mistakes, I have grown.

When we destroy something crated by man we call it vandalism but when we destroy something by nature we call it progress.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

When you realize that no one really knows what they are doing and that everyone is doing the best they can according to their own level of consciousness, life gets a lot easier. Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

Why blame the dark for being dark? It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn’t as bright as it could be.

Why is it that weeks and months and years go by so quickly, all in a blur, but moments last forever?

Yes, I do feel the world revolves around me. After all, I am the main character of my own life.

You can be sincere and still be stupid.

You cannot receive what you don't give. Outflow determines inflow. Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you already have, but unless you allow it to flow out, you won't even know that you have it. This includes abundance.

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

You cannot transcend what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself.

Alone within the vast tribunal that is the stormy sky, the pilot is in contention for his mailbags with three elemental divinities: mountain, sea and storm.

True wealth is not what you have, it's what you're left with with when all you have is gone.

Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.

Budni smo, a spavamo.

A man sat down by a tree every day for 2 weeks. It was a beautiful Wisteria tree with purple flowers. Every day, around the same time, he would come to the park and sit by this tree. On the fourteenth day, he came to the park and approached the tree and as he sat down, he closed his eyes as he always did. Only this time when he opened them, the tree withered and died before him. The man then looked around and before he knew it, he had found that he never came to the tree at all, but was in an asylum the whole time.

And she realized, standing there, that in all her practical plans for marriage, she'd never thought about the simple pleasure of being loved.

Hey! look at us We're digging and digging Into stubborn, ancient earth; We're discovering Where we came from, and how we came. "but where are you going?" Hey! look at us We're learning and learning Into stubborn laws Of nature and space And non-nature and non-space; We're discovering All there is to know. "but where are you going?" Hey! look at us We're planning and planning Into stubborn years Of education and training And hopes and dreams; We're discovering How not to waste any time. "but where are you going?" Hey! look at us We're shiny and bright And clever and sophisticated And witty and well-read; We're discovering How to really fill up This old life. "but where are you going?" where? "Yes; where?

I am a man raking through ashes, a man struggling to find the embers of life in the bottom of a fireplace.

I am Nom-O-Tron,' said the machine, in a big, boomy voice, so loud that Astra was afraid her mum and dad or some other grown-ups would hear and come to see who was sneaking a bedtime snack. 'Shhh!' she said. 'Have you got any biscuits?

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.

I don't want that boy to fall over for just a bird that forgot that her wings are broken.

I'm trapped in my mind and I know it's crazy Hey, it's not that bad at all

Life is always uncertain. No one knows what's in there. But now my life is everywhere, I would just like to breathe and sleep and get all the rest I could. I wake up five in the morning some days just thinking about my own thoughts and stare blankly in thin air. Not sure what I am looking at but I know for a fact I am in my own world. Those times I am just inside my head just thinking about what is ahead.

The best thing about emotions is that they are contagious.

The choices we make define the kind of people we then become. The main question here is: Do we like who we have become?

If you think about it, the guy who brought out the concept of school, hadn't been to school himself!

In the midst of your struggles, you WILL find a reason to keep going. Don’t give up!

Some people think that the world revolves around them but even the Sun is not the center of the Universe.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Great marketing only makes a bad product fail faster.

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.

Holding back is so close to stealing.

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

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.