“It is between fifty and sixty years since I read it (i.e. the Book of Revelations), and I then considered it merely the ravings of a maniac, no more worthy nor capable of explanation than the incoherence of our own nightly dreams.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 34 of 303
“It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.”
“Aren't you ashamed to be concerned so much about making all the money you can and advancing your reputation and prestige, while for truth and wisdom and the improvement of your souls you have no thought or car?”
“Clean out your ears, don't listen for what you already know.”
“If you want to find out what a writer or a cartoonist really feels, look at his work. That's enough.”
“I often wake up in the night, and I like to have something to think about.”
“Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.”
“The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them.”
“I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am.”
“You might see someone with dreadlocks and label them a hippie in your head, but that doesn't mean they think of themselves that way. A lot of people look at me and see I have a beard and shaggy hair, and think I'm a hippie. I'm not a hippie, and I'm not not a hippie. I don't know what the f**k I am.”
“It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little.”
“Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes.”
“I don't read a lot of the sports, because I think people sometimes either build it up, or you have this guy that hates sports that is going to write bad about it, so I figure I'm not going to read it. Because I'm not going to let him put an idea into my head.”
“Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.”
“How many situations can be resolved with less thinking?”
“Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.”
“The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.”
“I think that's an important thing to do, to really pay attention to negative feedback, and solicit it, particularly from friends. This may sound like simple advice, but hardly anyone does that, and it's incredibly helpful.”
“I am a moderately good singer. I am not a great singer but I can interpret a song, which I don't think is quite the same as singing it.”
“Even when we are quite alone, how often do we think with pleasure or pain of what others think of us - of their imagined approbation or disapprobation.”