“We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.”
Thoughtful feeling
Thoughtful Quotes — page 120 of 303
“Enough of self, that darling luscious theme, O'er which philosophers in raptures dream; Of which with seeming disregard they write Then prizing most when most they seem to slight.”
“The more haste, ever the worst speed.”
“With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull.”
“To copy faults is want of sense.”
“To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense”
“Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind.”
“I have long discovered that geologists never read each other's works, and that the only object in writing a book is a proof of earnestness.”
“I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.”
“It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.”
“When I have heard him talking to Papa during the sittings for the picture, I have sat wondering whether it could be that he has no belief in anybody else, because he has no belief in himself.”
“My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs.”
“Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.”
“In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.”
“Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.”
“How can one bargain for anything that is worth while? And what else is worth bargaining for?”
“On my hike my brain was left to wander. That was often maddening because it was tedious and monotonous sometimes, but then my the mind would take over, and that's when I'd start hearing the music in my head or thinking deeply about people I know or things that I didn't even know I remembered anymore. Those thoughts would be there. I wouldn't have had them otherwise.”
“I retain what's interesting to me, but I don't have a lot of strategic depth.”
“You should just evaluate the work and make your judgments accordingly. That's the way you do it in life and every other subject.”
“The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.”