“Say not: “When I have free time I shall study”, for you may perhaps never have any free time”
Thoughtful feeling
Thoughtful Quotes — page 17 of 303
“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
“It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.”
“When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking.”
“Many people excuse their own faults but judge other persons harshly. We should reverse this attitude by excusing others' shortcomings and by harshly examining our own.”
“I'm very careful not to have ideas, because they're inaccurate.”
“Pictures rule, but words define, explain, express, direct, and hold together our thoughts and what we know.”
“Every piece of the puzzle that doesn't fit gets you closer to the answer.”
“It's that mind-heart connection that I believe compels us to not just be attentive to all the bright and dazzling things but also the dark and difficult things.”
“A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are able to take every bit of conceit out of a man and reduce his self-importance to zero if he will only remain within the influence of their sublime presence long enough to give it a fair and reasonable chance to do its work.”
“Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.”
“It is very unfair to judge any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.”
“The quickest way to correct the other fellow's attitude is to correct your own.”
“Don't put all your eggs in one basket.”
“I like characters who have strong facades and then have secrets. They have cracks.”
“A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.”
“The trouble with this country is that everything is new. We don't have any consideration for the past... Just because something is old, you don't just rip it down. You can renovate it instead of ripping it down and building something new.”
“It's so difficult, isn't it? To see what's going on when you're in the absolute middle of something? It's only with hindsight we can see things for what they are.”
“Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind.”
“If our words are not consistent with our actions, they will never be heard above the thunder of our deeds.”