“You curate information that you want to receive. It's a lot different because I'm not asking you if it's okay, I'm just saying I'm following your updates. That's why I don't think of Twitter as a social network.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 74 of 303
“I think certain people are the way they are for certain reasons that we can't necessarily judge without knowing.”
“But I think that your entire life is a process of sorting out some of those early messages that you got.”
“Rule: Start by looking for what is valid in every man.”
“Proof is never definitive, after all; one has to begin again with each new person.”
“To two men living the same number of years, the world always provides the same sum of experiences. It is up to us to be conscious of them.”
“From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.”
“Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected.”
“I always saw myself as more of a watcher, although I suppose my siblings might have a different viewpoint on it.”
“Bullies never want to acknowledge their own actions. They want to move through life without reflection or apology.”
“Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.”
“It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the effect his actions will have on others. Looked at like this, to persist in ignorance is itself dishonorable”
“I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself .”
“The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.”
“We are better able to study our neighbours than ourselves, and their actions than our own.”
“To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.”
“Forget college, forget everything else, just educate yourself, your world around you, everything around you.”
“There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.”
“If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.”
“Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.”