“Be eager to lend a patient ear to the opinions of others and think long and hard whether whoever finds fault has reason or not to censure you. And if the answer is yes, correct the fault. If no, give the impression that you have not heard him, or if he is a man whom you respect, explain to him why he is mistaken.”
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Thinking Quotes — page 490 of 4756
“Social media has totally transformed the way we communicate with each other and the way we provide for needs as we see them. I've always believed that if somebody looks good, they invariably are going to feel good. And it's self-fulfilling, because you'll just relax, you'll smile, you'll think you own the world. But if you also do good, you'll feel even better. So my goal is to make what we do meaningful in as many people's lives as we can.”
“No one would think he'd make such a beautiful corpse.”
“Talk of mysteries! — Think of our life in nature, — daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it, — rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! The solid earth! The actual world! The common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we? Where are we?”
“In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think.”
“In my walks, I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods if I am thinking of something out of the woods?”
“I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.”
“When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.”
“This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the most distant inhabitants of yonder star, the breadth of whose disk cannot be appreciated by our instruments?”
“I learned what it is to live in the open air, and I learned that our lives are domestic in more sense than we think.”
“A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.”
“Let no one think that I do not love the old ministers. They were, probably, the best men in their generation, and they deserve that their biographies should fill the pages of the town histories. If I could but hear the "glad tidings" of which they tell, and which, perchance, they heard, I might write in a worthier strain than this.”
“One of the most difficult things to do in life is thinking; that's why so few people engage in it.”
“There is a subtle danger in a man thinking that he is "fixed" for life. It indicates that the next jolt of the wheel of progress is going to fling him off.”
“Hard knocks have a place and value, but hard thinking goes farther in less time.”
“I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which followed the wrench of transference from a happy home to a school.”
“I think that the justices were totally answering the way that they should. I think that the senators, as best I could tell, for the most part, Democrat and Republican, respected that.”
“I think that there is a relatively small number of people who are pushing for independence in Taiwan.”
“I think 'crazy' is a compliment. I think you make money with people who are crazy.”
“... and in thinking of my life, I almost forgot my liberty.”