Deep Thought Quotes

To have a high IQ, you tend to specialize, think deep thoughts. You avoid trivia.

Sometimes you face difficulties not because you're doing something wrong, but because you're doing something right.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

Haters are like crickets. Crickets make a lot of noise, you hear it but you can’t see them, then right when you walk by them, they’re quiet.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.

The things that matter most are not things.

So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.

Don't sacrifice your spirit for wealth. Grow your wealth by first growing your spirit.

Anyone ever lost in the wild knows that nature wants you dead.

Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.

The amount you give isn't important. What matters is what that amount represents in terms of your life.

If you are influenced by the opinions of others, you will have no DESIRE of your own.

If there were no God, he would have to be invented.

We must not mistake kindness for weakness. Kindness isn't weak. Kindness is a certain type of strength.

The inability to forget is far more devastating than the inability to remember.

I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.

The things you have that money won't buy are the things that will enable you to get more of the things that money will buy.

Holding back is so close to stealing.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

It could be disastrous to speak your mind while you are deep in thought.

The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.

I can't really articulate what I feel.

Great marketing only makes a bad product fail faster.

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

The universe is not short on wake-up calls. We’re just quick to hit the snooze button.

Beauty would save the world.

There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.

On the other side of pain, there is still love.

Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.

When you come right down to it, the secret to having it all is loving it all.

One should express his viewpoint regarding what he performed in his country and in a vast part of the world with great respect and deep thought.

The Answer to the Great Question... Of Life, the Universe and Everything... Is... Forty-two,' said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.

Life is in ourselves and not in the external.

If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.

You have sole custody of your life. Who you are today is not who you have to be tomorrow. Embrace the possibility of transformation.

The one and only thing over which you have complete and total control is how you focus your own mind. Luckily, this determines everything else.

In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.

Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.

Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up. There is only one thing, one thing needful: one has only to dare!

True wealth is not what you have, it's what you're left with with when all you have is gone.

If you so choose, the challenges can make you stronger. If you so choose, the disappointments can make you more determined.

Doing is better than not doing, and if you do something badly you'll learn to do it better.

Very deep. You should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you.

To me, Doors fans were always the 16-year-old idiots at parties, getting stoned, and talking about how Morrison's lyrics were like poetry... like that was a deep thought.

Arouse in the other person an eager want.

Deep thoughts (come) from a deep well. Society is useful because when we see ourselves reflected through others we can gain a deeper understanding of ourselves.

The biggest battle in life is with yourself

The conditions conducive to deep thought have become increasingly rare in our highly mediated lives... Now we live in an attention economy, where the most in-demand commodity is 'eyeballs.

ALL IMPULSES OF THOUGHT HAVE A TENDENCY TO CLOTHE THEMSELVES IN THEIR PHYSICAL EQUIVALENT.