Best 150 quotes in «deep thought quotes» category

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

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

The best thing about emotions is that they are contagious.

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

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

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.

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

An idea is a feat of association.

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.

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

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.

Arouse in the other person an eager want.

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

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.

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

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

Beauty would save the world.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Holding back is so close to stealing.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I can't really articulate what I feel.

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.

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.

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.

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.'

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

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

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.

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.

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

If you want to feel good, be rational.

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.

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

In brief, sir, study what you most affect.

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

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

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