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Thoughtful Quotes — page 40 of 303
“Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspective”
“Your mistake was not in imagining things you could not know—that is, after all, what imagination is for. Rather, your mistake was in unthinkingly treating what you imagined as though it were an accurate representation of the facts.”
“I speak on things I'd like to speak on. Anything else, I'll keep quiet.”
“I don't talk politics and I don't talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.”
“See a person's means ... Observe his motives. Examine that in which he rests. How can a person conceal his character?”
“If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.”
“Happiness is not on my list of priorities. I just deal with day-to-day things. If I'm happy, I'm happy – and if I'm not, I don't know the difference... Knowing that you are the person you were put on this earth to be – that's much more important than just being happy.”
“It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'”
“There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you're angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you're asked.”
“And it is very much lamented,... That you have no such mirrors as will turn Your hidden worthiness into your eye That you might see your shadow.”
“I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.”
“I didn't know what some of the stuff on Astral Weeks was about until years later.”
“The need for a rational consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.”
“It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.”
“I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.”
“The number of such as live without the ardour of inquiry is very small, though many content themselves with cheap amusements, and waste their lives in researches of no importance.”
“Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures and such pains make up the general mass of life; and as nothing is little to him that feels it with gre”
“There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.”
“No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything.”