Thoughtful Quotes - Page 23

• 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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• Why needs a man be rich? Why must he have horses, fine garments, handsome apartments, access to public houses, and places of amusement? Only for want of thought.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Men, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1169, Delphi Classics

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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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• The aim of science is to apprehend this purely intelligible world as a thing in itself, an object which is what it is independently of all thinking, and thus antithetical to the sensible world.... The world of thought is the universal, the timeless and spaceless, the absolutely necessary, whereas the world of sense is the contingent, the changing and moving appearance which somehow indicates or symbolizes it.

  Robin G. Collingwood

  Moving, Thinking, World

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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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• 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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• 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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• That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone.

  William Shakespeare

  Talking, Going Away, Serious

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• The confirmed prejudices of a thoughtful life are as hard to change as the confirmed habits of an indolent life; and as some must trifle away age because they trifled away youth, others must labor on in a maze of error because they have wandered there too long to find their way out.

  Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

  Errors, Long, Age

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• Though we cannot totally change our nature, we may in great measure correct it by reflection and philosophy; and some philosophy is a very necessary companion in this world, where, even to the most fortunate, the chances are greatly against happiness.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Philosophy, Reflection, Thinking

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.333, Oxford University Press

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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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• All that happens in the world of Nature or Man, - every war; every peace; every hour of prosperity; every hour of adversity; every election; every death ; every life; every success and every failure, - all change, - all permanence, - the perished leaf; the unutterable glory of stars, - all things speak truth to the thoughtful spirit.

  Rufus Choate

  Stars, War, Adversity

  Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862). “The Works of Rufus Choate, with a Memoir of His Life: Memoir. Lectures and addresses”, p.395

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• It is ironic since whenever I have met with our elected officials they are invariably thoughtful, well-meaning people. And yet collectively 90% of their effort seems to be focused on how to stick it to the other party.

  Sergey Brin

  Party, People, Effort

  "Sergey Brin, Google Co-Founder, Wishes Obama Wasn’t A Democrat" by Dino Grandoni, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 11, 2012.

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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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• By and large, the making of serious, thoughtful and occasionally valuable art has become a lonely persuasion, while the marketing of art has become a boutique operation, manipulated by fashion, self-serving art scholars and the vagaries of the auction block.

  Abe Ajay

  Fashion, Lonely, Art

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• Let them at all times concern themselves with doing a kindly thing for one of their fellows, offering to someone love, consideration, thoughtful help.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Offering, Helping, One Love

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• Skepticism literally means a thoughtful inquiry, the looking at a problem in a disinterested spirit, the surveying of a question from many sides. In this sense it is the very essence of philosophy and science.

  Joseph Alexander Leighton

  Philosophy, Mean, Essence

  Joseph Alexander Leighton (1918). “The Field of Philosophy: An Outline of Lectures on Introduction to Philosophy”

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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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• Sean Taylor is a wonderfully talented modern troubadour whose sincere, thoughtful songs pull you in. I've had the pleasure of sharing the stage with him. He swings. Check him out!

  Eric Bibb

  Song, Swings, Modern

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• I think we all do have a guardian angel. I believe they work through us all the time, when we are thoughtful and good and kind to each other.

  Roma Downey

  Believe, Angel, Thinking

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• I am my father's only child. The world knows a two-dimensional Cary Grant. As charming a star and as remarkable a gentleman as he was, he was still a more thoughtful and loving father.

  Jennifer Grant

  Stars, Children, Father

  Jennifer Grant (2011). “Good Stuff: A Reminiscence of My Father, Cary Grant”, p.6, Knopf

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• Yet compared with the serious things of life, fishing is after all rather trivial. The thoughtful angler must frankly confess this.

  Harold Russell

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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

  George Santayana

  Art, Philosophy, Men

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• Those old adages - you attract more with honey; do unto others - are true. You can get attention by being acerbic or mean or making a bizarre comment. But by being nice, being empathetic, building relationships and listening, people begin to recognize that you're thoughtful and respectful of their position.

  Shelley Moore Capito

  Nice, Mean, People

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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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