Thoughtful Quotes - Page 19

• I can't describe it, what I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. This means something. This is important.

  Steven Spielberg

  Mean, Thinking, Feelings

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• We must continually remind students in the classroom that expression of different opinions and dissenting ideas affirms the intellectual process. We should forcefully explain that our role is not to teach them to think as we do but rather to teach them, by example, the importance of taking a stance that is rooted in rigorous engagement with the full range of ideas about a topic.

  Bell Hooks

  Education, Thinking, Expression

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• Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species.

  Carl Sagan

  Keys, Civilization, Survival

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science”, p.172, Ballantine Books

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• By going one step further back in thought, discordant opinions are reconciled by being seen to be two extremes of one principle, and we can never go so far back as to preclude a still higher vision.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Agreement, Two

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (189?). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”

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• Generalization is always a new influx of divinity into the mind. Hence the thrill that attends it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Mind, Thrill

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.179, Penguin

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• Do not craze yourself with thinking, but go about your business anywhere.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Craze

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.207, Penguin

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• Obama entered the presidency trailing clouds of intellectual self-regard. His carefully cultivated persona was of a uniquely thoughtful, judicious, deliberative, evidence-driven man comfortable with complexity. The protracted consideration of Keystone supposedly displayed these virtues. Now, however, it is clear that his mind has always been as closed as an unshucked oyster.

  George Will

  Men, Clouds, Self

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• Thought dissolves the material universe by carrying the mind up into a sphere where all is plastic.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Mind, Spheres

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1982). “Emerson: Selected Essays”, p.311, Penguin

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• 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.

  Kevin Sampsell

  Editors, Creative, Trying

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Our thinking is a pious reception.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Reception, Pious

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• To the young mind every thing is individual, stands by itself. By and by, it finds how to join two things and see in them one nature; then three, then three thousand; and so, tyrannized over by its own unifying instinct, it goes on tying things together, diminishing anomalies, discovering roots running under ground whereby contrary and remote things cohere and flower out from one stem.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Flower, Thinking

  "The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature addresses and lectures", Vol. 1, by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Library, 2006.

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• The crystal sphere of thought is as concentrical as the geological structure of the globe. As our soils and rocks lie in strata, concentric strata, so do all men's thinkings run laterally, never vertically.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Lying, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841). “The method of nature: An oration, delivered before the Society of the Adelphi, in Waterville College, in Maine, August 11, 1841”, p.7

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• How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation, and rapt concentration, and almost a going out of thebody to think!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Thinking, Going Out

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.637, Modern Library

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• There was a thoughtful frown on the face of the man who was the possessor of twenty million dollars.

  Eleanor Porter

  Book, Men, Twenties

  Eleanor H. Porter (2006). “Oh, Money! Money!”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The New York Times columnist, Thomas Friedman, cited Haqqani to make the argument that Guantánamo must be shut down. He wrote:“Husain Haqqani, a thoughtful Pakistani scholar now teaching at Boston University, remarked to me: 'When people like myself say American values must be emulated and America is a bastion of freedom, we get Guantánamo Bay thrown in our faces. When we talk about the America of Jefferson and Hamilton, people back home say to us: 'That is not the America we are dealing with. We are dealing with the America of imprisonment without trial.'

  Husain Haqqani

  New York, Teaching, Home

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• There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts,--fine breeding.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Kindness, Manners, Breeding

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• Man is a thought-adventurer.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Thinking, Mankind

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Kangaroo”, p.281, Jester House Publishing

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• Time and fevers burn away
  Individual beauty from
  Thoughtful children, and the grave
  Proves the child ephemeral

  W. H. Auden

  Death, Children, Fever

  'Another Time' (1940) no. 18, p. 43

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• Most thoughts are only profiles of thoughts. They must be inverted and synthesized with their antipodes. Thus many philosophical writings become very interesting which would not have been so otherwise.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Philosophical, Writing, Thinking

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• Once the pursuit of truth begins to haunt the mind, it becomes an ideal never wholly attained.

  Agnes Meyer Driscoll

  Truth, Thinking, Mind

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• In opening your doors to woman, it is mind that will enter the lecture room, it is intelligence that will ask for food; sex will never be felt where science leads for the atmosphere of thought will be around every lecture.

  Harriot Kezia Hunt

  Sex, Food, Science

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• Experience and imagination must enter into the very constitution of our thoughts involving concrete individuals.

  Zeno Vendler

  Thinking, Imagination, Experience

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• the full analysis of the notions of saying something and understanding what one said inevitably involves a concept which, as I will show in detail, essentially corresponds to the Cartesian idea of thought.

  Zeno Vendler

  Thinking, Ideas, Understanding

  Zeno Vendler (1972). “Res Cogitans: An Essay in Rational Psychology”, Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press

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• The thoughtful man becomes a hermit in the thoroughfares of the marketplace.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Independence, Hermits

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Miscellanies (Annotated Edition)”, p.124, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I've always believed that thoughtful people don't really take the tabloids seriously. They're basically a form of entertainment. I enjoy them as much as the next New Yorker.

  Woody Allen

  People, Tabloids, Next

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