Deep Thought Quotes - Page 20

• You can be sincere and still be stupid.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Stupid, Ignorance, Sincere

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

  Plato

  Plato, Philosophical, Ignorance

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• I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

  Plato

  Im Sorry, Apology, Men

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, Xist Publishing

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• Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don't.

  Seth Godin

  Motivation, People, Marketing

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• You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spirituality

  "'What Is the Soul?' Eckhart Tolle's Answer". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 8, 2012.

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• To think deeply in our culture is to grow angry and to anger others; and if you cannot tolerate this anger, you are wasting the time you spend thinking deeply. One of the rewards of deep thought is the hot glow of anger at discovering a wrong, but if anger is taboo, thought will starve to death.

  Jules Henry

  Thinking, Rewards, Hot

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• In brief, sir, study what you most affect.

  William Shakespeare

  Fun, Humor, Taming

  'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 1, sc. 1, l. 39

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• I didn't have all the expectations and the publicity. It probably made me work harder and learn more. It was a blessing in disguise.

  Dustin Penner

  Fun, Hard Work, Humor

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• Single-minded devotion engenders deep thought, which expresses itself in action. The Lord's Light descends on the devotee, His power awakens in him and, as a result, profound inner inquiry blossoms forth.

  Anandamayi Ma

  Light, Profound, Inquiry

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• You will find God in the church of your choice.

  Bob Dylan

  Choices, Church

  Song: Last Thoughts On Woody Guthrie

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• Anytime destruction of another is needed in order to advance one's own aims or goals, then the goals need to be reevaluated.

  David White

  Order, Goal, Needs

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• If you start embracing life's storms instead of hiding away from them, you'll stop fearing them all together; it is this way one becomes immovable.

  Stefanie Schneider

  Storm, Together, Way

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• The devil told my mind that my thoughts held no power; and this seemed true until my thoughts I began to speak.

  Stefanie Schneider

  Mind, Devil, Speak

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

  Christopher Langan

  Thinking, Trivia

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• The believer speaks little and does a lot, whereas the hypocrite speaks a lot and does little. When the believer speaks, it is with wisdom, when he is silent, it is in deep thought, when he sees, he takes lessons, and when he acts, it is a cure. If this is the way you are, then you are in the constant worship [of your Lord.]

  Abu Nu`aym

  Hypocrite, Doe, Lessons

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• 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.

  Bruce McCulloch

  Party, Doors, Talking

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• Nothing worthwhile is ever achieved without deep thought and hard work.

  J. R. D. Tata

  Hard Work, Worthwhile, Hard

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

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Civilization, Made

  "Notes from Underground". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Part 1, Chapter 7 (page 23), 1864.

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• 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!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, He Man, Dare

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.372, 谷月社

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• For seven and a half million years, Deep Thought computed and calculated, and in the end announced that the answer was in fact Forty-two - and so another, even bigger, computer had to be built to find out what the actual question was.

  Douglas Adams

  Years, Two, Answers

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.8, Pan Macmillan

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• After a lifetime of deep thought, I've decided that life is a distraction, but probably not from anything important.

  Robert Breault

  Important, Life Is, Lifetime

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• My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me. While the past was a book he had read and re-read may times, the future was just one more literary work of art into which he used to pour himself with deep thought and concentration. Innumerable people since his death have told me how he used to read in the future, and this certainly was one of his very great strengths.

  Aga Khan IV

  Art, Book, Past

  "My Beloved Grandfather: A few words by Mowlana Hazar Imam, His Highness the Aga Khan IV". www.amaana.org. November 1977.

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• The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

  Epicurus

  Death, Art, Philosophical

  Epicurus (1964). “Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill”

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• 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.

  Eric Hoffer

  Humor, Movement, Degenerates

  "The Temper of Our Time". Book by Eric Hoffer, 1967.

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• Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

  James Bovard

  Humor, Two, Democracies Have

  James Bovard (2016). “Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty”, p.333, St. Martin's Griffin

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