Thoughtful Quotes

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Those with very loud voices in their throats are nearly incapable of thinking subtle thoughts.

We cannot even reproduce our thoughts entirely in words.

What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of his own enchantment, in order to perpetuate it.

Here, I stole it for you. Why don’t you tell me what it’s for.” “Aw, Sophronia, how thoughtful. You brought me a present!

You yourself must make an effort. Buddhas are only show the way. The thoughtful who enter the way are freed from the bondage of defilements.

Does the thoughtful man suppose that...the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see?

A good song is like a mannequin - its form makes sense, but there's no life. There should be memorable melody, thoughtful lyric, appropriate arrangement.

The finest works of art are those in which there is the least matter. The closer expression comes to thought, the more the word clings to the idea and disappears, the more beautiful the work of art.

... the will always wills to do something and thus implicitly holds in contempt sheer thinking, whose whole activity depends on "doing nothing.

Only what is thought, said, or done at a certain rare coincidence is good.

As our domestic fowls are said to have their original in the wild pheasant of India, so our domestic thoughts have their prototypes in the thoughts of her philosophers.

You fail in your thoughts, or you prevail in your thoughts only.

We need to educate students to be critical agents, to learn how to take risks, engage in thoughtful dialogue, and taking on the crucial issue what it means to be socially responsible.

I appreciate anything thoughtful.

A slight wind shakes the seed-pods my thoughts are spent as the black seeds.

Barack Obama is an incredibly intelligent, thoughtful, decisive person in pursuing the agenda he sets.

Wine sets even a thoughtful man to singing, or sets him into softly laughing, sets him to dancing. Sometimes it tosses out a word that was better unspoken.

God reveals Himself, unfailingly, to the solitary, thoughtful seeker

How fondly swindlers coddle their dupes! No mother is as caressing or thoughtful towards her adored child as a merchant in hypocrisy toward his milch-cow.

Managing a business, small or large, today requires an extremely disciplined, thoughtful approach with regard to the pressure that people are under.

A thoughtful and well-informed consideration of US government in relation to American society.

Thoughts, like old vultures, prey upon their heart-strings

Well, prepare yourself. I am all kinds of thoughtful this week. I brought you something else.

One of the things about leadership is that you cannot be a moderate, balanced, thoughtful, careful articulator of policy. You've got to be on the lunatic fringe.

I think the Republicans have really thoughtful financial policies, and I'm more in the middle on taxation.

I'm pretty careful about the things I say ahead of time. I'm thoughtful about not going too far. The only thing you can do occasionally is be too much.

I can sing fine and I can play guitar fine, but put 'em together and it becomes a thoughtful effort.

Thoughtful criticism and close scrutiny of all government officials by the press and the public are an important part of our democratic society.

Most thoughtful Americans of today seem to have forgotten how strongly their own and immediate predecessors, Emerson, Hawthorne and Whitman, were still preoccupied with the essence behind things.

Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought.

The bad thing is that thinking about thought doesn't help at all; one has to have it from nature so that the good ideas appear before us like free children of God calling to us: Here we are.

The close and thoughtful observer more and more learns to recognize his limitations. He realizes that with the steady growth of knowledge more and more new problems keep on emerging.

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.

Mom as it's your birthday And, unfortunately, not mine Give me some money and I'll get out your hair While you have a large glass of wine I try so hard to be thoughtful

With a whirl of thought oppressed I sink from reverie to rest. An horrid vision seized my head, I saw the graves give up their dead.

The quality of a man's mind can generally be judged by the size of his wastepaper basket.

A rocket is a reed that thinks brilliantly.

As more Americans meet Mitt Romney, I think they'll see beyond the handsome exterior and see not just a good salesman, but a thoughtful (and, yes, conservative) leader.

The difference between religion and science is the difference between thoughtless certainty and thoughtful doubt.

Mel [Bochner] sets a very high standard. He expects only the best and most thoughtful and rigorous examinations, not only of the history of art but your own practice.

I try to be a lot of things for the authors I work with - a careful reader, a helpful friend who also happens to be an experienced writer, a thoughtful editor, and a creative midwife.

Designers from start to finish now in digital media have to think in a much more sort of thoughtful serious and humble way about how design audiences will receive their products.

I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.

My decision to return to the MLS is one that I have made with thoughtful consideration.

It's surely one of the strange phenomena of this decade that the most thoughtful gift you can bring a date is not flowers, chocolates, or ankle-length pearls, but a note from your doctor.

A propositional sign, applied and thought out, is a thought. A thought is a proposition with a sense.

Without the New York Times, there is no blog community. They'd have nothing to blog about.

There's no idea that can't be explained to a thoughtful 14-year-old. If the thoughtful 14-year-old doesn't get it, it is your fault, not the 14-year-old's.

Do not try to decide a difficult matter by means of disputing, but that which is enjoined by the spiritual law, namely patience, prayer, and thoughtful hope.