“We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 36 of 303
“If you ask a living teacher a question, he will probably answer you. If you are puzzled by what he says, you can save yourself the trouble of thinking by asking him what he means. If, however, you ask a book a question, you must answer it yourself. In this respect a book is like nature or the world. When you question it, it answers you only to the extent that you do the work of thinking an analysis yourself.”
“I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.”
“There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.”
“We all show facets, to your mother, or to your boyfriend, or a friend. You're always a bit different.”
“How to read writers on writing: With respect, amusement, and skepticism. They will contradict one another-as they should-for each writer brings an individual history to the writing task. There is no single theology here.”
“The receptive attitude enables one mind to fix itself to another as by spiritual grappling-irons. When you see that every word you utter us taken in, and weighed, and measured by your listener, you cannot free yourself from the influence of his presence. You are compelled to have in your thoughts not only the words you utter, but the man to whom they are spoken. You must not only talk, and talk well, but you must talk to him.”
“All I can do is share what I'm thinking - and learn from others.”
“I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.”
“I find that in life all you can do is try to be honest about who you are and how you're feeling, and trust that it will be received in the correct way.”
“I try to take care and be gentle to them. Words and eggs must be handled with care. Once broken they are impossible things to repair.”
“There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.”
“Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.”
“If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.”
“Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.”
“Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.”
“When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.”
“I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain.”
“My favorite actors are actors who are enigmatic and mysterious and never make the obvious choice in terms of the projects they do or who they work with or their craft. But I think that the less I know about an actor, the more chance I have of allowing their own persona to kind of slip away so I can get completely lost in the character they're playing, and the more that people think they know about your personal life, the more difficult it becomes to preserve that.”
“If you’re really looking for answers, look past me. But if you’re interested in how I got to where I am, I will be as honest as possible.”