Quotes and Sayings About Deep Thought
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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 -
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
-- Alan Watts -
She avoids deep thought like an empty restaurant, not out of stupidity, but a canny resolve to be happy.
-- Alex Shakar -
In my first publication I might have claimed that I had come to the conclusion, as a result of serious study of the literature and deep thought, that valuable antibacterial substances were made by moulds and that I set out to investigate the problem. That would have been untrue and I preferred to tell the truth that penicillin started as a chance observation. My only merit is that I did not neglect the observation and that I pursued the subject as a bacteriologist. My publication in 1929 was the starting-point of the work of others who developed penicillin especially in the chemical field.
-- Alexander Fleming -
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 -
Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.
-- Bennett Cerf -
It could be disastrous to speak your mind while you are deep in thought.
-- C.J. Langenhoven -
To have a high IQ, you tend to specialize, think deep thoughts. You avoid trivia.
-- Christopher Langan -
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 -
I don't know what I feel about wearing my furs anymore. I worked so hard to have a fur coat, and I don't want to wear it anymore because I'm so wrapped up in the animals. I have real deep thoughts about it because I care about the world and nature.
-- Diana Ross -
The Answer to the Great Question... Of Life, the Universe and Everything... Is... Forty-two,' said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.
-- Douglas Adams -
Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.
-- Eric Hoffer -
When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky -
There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky -
If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky -
To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Realists do not fear the results of their study.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky -
It wasn't even 8:00 yet. Pretty early for such deep thoughts.
-- Gabrielle Zevin -
Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.
-- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel -
Nothing worthwhile is ever achieved without deep thought and hard work,
-- J. R. D. Tata -
But our lives were not as they seemed, were they, Sophia? No one's life ever is.
-- Jean Plaidy -
Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
-- Jean-Paul Sartre -
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 -
The conditions conducive to deep thought have become increasingly rare in our highly mediated lives... Now we live in an attention economy, where the most in-demand commodity is 'eyeballs.
-- Laura Miller -
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
-- Leo Tolstoy -
The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods outside their control; but the happiness of the wise grows out of their own free acts.
-- Marcus Aurelius -
The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.
-- Michael Porter -
Sometimes when it looks like I'm deep in thought I'm just trying not to have a conversation with people.
-- Pete Wentz
