“Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.”
Thoughtful feeling
Thoughtful Quotes — page 7 of 303
“Always listen for what you can leave out.”
“It's easy to hear the voices of others and often very difficult to hear your own. Every person you meet is going to want something different from you. The question is: what do you want for yourself?”
“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.”
“We as a country have to do some soul-searching.”
“Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.”
“I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget.”
“I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.”
“Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound to come upon you and perhaps you will thenceforth avoid falling ill.”
“One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.”
“your judgement judges you and defines you”
“I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.”
“Be reasonable with the students and make sure they see the logic in what we're doing.”
“An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.”
“To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.”
“What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.”
“It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.”
“Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.”
“Normally writers do not talk much,because they are saving their conversations for the readers of their book- those invisible listeners with whom we wish to strike a sympathetic chord.”
“Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.”