“Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason”
Thoughtful feeling
Thoughtful Quotes — page 53 of 303
“The polls undoubtedly help to decide what people think, but their most important long-term influence may be on how people think. The interrogative process is very distinctly weighted against the asking of an intelligent question or the recording of a thoughtful answer.”
“How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.”
“It's too easy only to blame the militarists, racists, sexists and other pushers of violence for the mess we're in. What is harder is self-examination, moving beyond caring by looking inward to ask the personal question: What more should I be doing everyday to bring about a peace and justice based world, whether across the ocean or across the living room?”
“I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it.”
“Wishes are slippery things. You have to be very specific or you can get exactly what you wished for and still end up with nothing.”
“Some people think they know who you are, when really they don't.”
“Just because other people think something, that doesn't make it true. Maybe there's some truth in that, but it's unsatisfying, bitter-tasting truth.”
“Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.”
“The heart says yes, but the mind says no.”
“For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.”
“When I was younger I didn't want to listen to anybody, but now more than ever where I am in my life I understand how important it is to listen, observe, absorb, and let that all come out through your music.”
“I really care about where things are going. I care about what people are feeling and I like to ask the question why.”
“Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were so little known. Is it possible that you do not know the elementary fact in comparative anatomy, that the wing of a bird is really the forearm, while the wing of a bat consists of three elongated fingers with membranes between?”
“I'm a thinker; I think too much. So for me to freestyle rap, it's like I'm thinking three, four time steps ahead, and I hate it.”
“They were words that came out of nothing, but they seemed to him somehow significant. He muttered them over again.”
“I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.”
“It is not half so important to know as to feel.”
“There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.”
“The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtlety surprises; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased.”