“I felt before I thought”
Thoughtful feeling
Thoughtful Quotes — page 33 of 303
“Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.”
“Remember always that there not so very much difference between various people as we seem to imagine. Maps and atlases show us countries in different colors. Undoubtedly people do differ from one another, but they resemble each other also a great deal, and it is well to keep this in mind and not misled by colors on the map or by national boundaries.”
“One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows.”
“The Bible is the one Book to which any thoughtful man may go with any honest question of life or destiny and find the answer of God by honest searching.”
“A person who deserves my loyalty receives it.”
“The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.”
“To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.”
“I'm reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.”
“What Washington needs is adult supervision.”
“You could begin to notice whenever you find yourself blaming others or justifying yourself. If you spent the rest of your life just noticing that and letting it be a way to uncover the silliness of the human condition-the tragic yet comic drama that we all continually buy into-you could develop a lot of wisdom and a lot of kindness as well as a great sense of humor.”
“It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.”
“I spend many months in apparently listless rumination out of which I hope something will emerge.”
“To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.”
“Constantly take inventory of what's important to you.”
“I surrounded myself with people who indulged my ego. They treated me as though I was Ziggy Stardust or one of my characters, never realising that David Jones might be behind it.”
“What seems different in yourself; that's the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and that's just what we try to suppress. And we claim to love life.”
“I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.”
“If you start out looking at somebody, wondering whether he's good or bad, I think you're starting out in the wrong direction. I think we're all good and we're all bad.”
“The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.”