“Common sense needs constant reappraisal.”
Thoughtful feeling
Thoughtful Quotes — page 216 of 303
“I never thought that others would take my theories so much more seriously than I did.”
“Do things sound better in your head before you say them, or do you even run them through there first?”
“What a deep faith in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small glimpse of the reason revealed in the world there must have been in Kepler and Newton to enable them to unravel the mechanism of the heavens in long years of lonely work!”
“The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine morning, realizing who in fact he is.”
“And so, resisting the temptation to wallow in artistic remorse, I prefer to leave both well and ill alone and to think about something else”
“Well, certainly, even separate from what our culture is going through, kids have different personalities and different natural bents and skill sets that they seem to come pre-programmed with. One of my two sons is very athletic. The other one is into social skills and humor.”
“The spot of ground on which a man has stood is forever interesting to him.”
“It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of some single irradiating word.”
“A thought may be very commendable as a thought, but I value it chiefly as a window through which I can obtain insight on the thinker.”
“All we are is eyes looking for the unbroken or the edges where the broken bits might fit each other.”
“There are things that can't be said, because it's hard to have to know them.”
“I am very careful not to wantonly encourage people to join my industry, or to aspire to work in TV. I am certain that, generally speaking, the wage pressure in the television news industry is downward.”
“I think one of the things about parents and children is there are the accidents of temperament. There's no guarantee that just because you are related you'll have anything in common.”
“An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.”
“What higher praise can we bestow on any one than to say of him that he harbors another's prejudices with a hospitality so cordial as to give him, for the time, the sympathy next best to, if indeed it be not edification in, charity itself. For what disturbs more and distracts mankind than the uncivil manners that cleave man from man?”
“As I've moved along - not only my life, but my career and things like that - you look at yourself and start going, 'Oh, man, are you still doing what you set out to do? Are the ideals you had still the same?' Sometimes you measure up and sometimes you don't.”
“Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.”
“You must give and receive love only when doing so doesn't hurt others. That's the ethical path, and you should gain strength from walking it.”
“Friendships can survive after massive disappointment, but only if both parties are honest with one another.”