“A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 18 of 303
“Whatever one's religion in his private life may be, for the officeholder, nothing takes precedence over his oath to uphold the Constitution and all its parts - including the First Amendment and the strict separation of church and state.”
“I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.”
“I support anyone's right to be who they want to be. My question is: to what extent do I have to participate in your self-image?”
“I try not to be surprised. Surprise is the public face of a mind that has been closed.”
“What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.”
“When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.”
“All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.”
“What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.”
“I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.”
“It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be.”
“What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.”
“Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.”
“The most difficult mental process of all is to consider objectively any concept which, if accepted as fact, will toss into discard a lifetime of training and experience.”
“Where is fancy bred, in the heart or in the head?”
“If I were to let my life be taken over by what is urgent, I might very well never get around to what is essential.”
“Why prove to a man he is wrong? Is that going to make him like you? Why not let him save face? He didn't ask for your opinion. He didn't want it. Why argue with him? You can't win an argument, because if you lose, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it. Why? You will feel fine. But what about him? You have made him feel inferior, you hurt his pride, insult his intelligence, his judgment, and his self-respect, and he'll resent your triumph. That will make him strike back, but it will never make him want to change his mind. A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still.”
“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight.”
“It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.”
“An answer to a question no one asked is a wasted answer.”