Thoughtful Quotes - Page 8

• Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Love, Fear, Philosophy

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1971). “Saint Thomas Aquinas”

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• There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought

  Laurence J. Peter

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

  Bono

  Perspective, Questions And Answers, Asking The Right Questions

  Song: 11 O'Clock Tick Tock

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• I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent.

  Kate Bosworth

  Being Yourself, Crazy, Laughing

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• Adversity is the first path to truth.

  Lord Byron

  Kindness, Adversity, Not Giving Up

  Lord Byron (2009). “Don Juan”, p.520, The Floating Press

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• When the president talks about tax reform, he talks about the people who will benefit. He talks about American jobs. He talks about the fact that we're going to be taking money that's overseas and bringing it back to the United States so that it will employ American workers. I think that focus again on the American working and middle class is- is-is to me the most thoughtful and, in some ways, the most genius part of Trump's approach to politics.

  James Vance

  Thinking, People, Focus

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• I don't have a grand master plan, but I try to be thoughtful when I can and also silly. It's part of the fun.

  Josh Charles

  Fun, Silly, Trying

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

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• The act of taking my own life is not something that I do without a lot of thought. I don't believe that people should take their own lives without deep and thoughtful reflection over a considerable period of time. I do believe strongly, however, that the right to do so is one of the most fundamental rights anyone in a free society should have. For me much of the world makes no sense, but my feelings about what I am doing ring loud and clear to an inner ear and to a place where there is no self, only calm. Love always, Wendy.

  Wendy O. Williams

  Believe, Suicidal, Reflection

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• The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.

  Rebecca West

  Strength, Success, Encouraging

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• Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Interesting, Television, World

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.249, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• How do you get 'feng shui' out of 'thoughtful'?

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Feng Shui, Shiver

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.154, Scholastic Inc.

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• Working hard, and being thoughtful, and generous, and smart; it's a path to a better life.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

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• Good generals select intelligent officers, thoughtful advisors, and brave subordinates. They oversee their troops like a fierce tiger with wings.

  Zhuge Liang

  Leadership, Art, War

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• Meditation helps you stay in a calm, clear-headed state so that when challenges come at you, you can deal with them like a ninja - in a calm thoughtful way. When you're centered, your emotions are not hijacking you.

  Ray Dalio

  Meditation, Challenges, Hijacking

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• Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

  William Faulkner

  Broken Heart, Giving Up, Kindness

  Light in August ch. 13 (1932)

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• Older, younger, anyone can help. We've learned that our legislators listen, and people with passionate and thoughtful concerns make a difference every day. We've had constituents initiate legislation, lobby for it, organize meetings and events, and, of course, call, mail, e-mail and visit legislators to express their views. It's really great to see how much difference that individuals can make.

  Doris Day

  Helping Others, Views, Differences

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• Language pedants hew to an oral tradition of shibboleths that have no basis in logic or style, that have been defied by great writers for centuries, and that have been disavowed by every thoughtful usage manual.

  Steven Pinker

  Style, Oral Tradition, Pedants

  "Oaf of Office" by Steven Pinker, www.nytimes.com. January 21, 2009.

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• The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  Edgar Allan Poe (2006). “The Best of Poe”, p.134, Prestwick House Inc

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• The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Communication, Silence, Genius

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• Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Taught Us, Intelligence, Madness

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• Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Beauty, Poetry, Poetic

  "The Poetic Principle". Essay by Edgar Allan Poe, 1850.

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• Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Stupid, Silly, Ignorance

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• Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Inspirational, Inspiring

  "Maya Angelou’s Art Collection Will Give You The Fire To Finish The Day Right" by Priscilla Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2015.

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• Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

  Walter Lippmann

  Life, Talking, Belief

  Walter Lippmann (1938). “The good society”, p.44, Transaction Publishers

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• Life is too important to take seriously.

  Corky Siegel

  Important, Life Is

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