Deep Thought famous quotes
03-28-2025
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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 -
After a lifetime of deep thought, I've decided that life is a distraction, but probably not from anything important.
-- Robert Breault -
One should express his viewpoint regarding what he performed in his country and in a vast part of the world with great respect and deep thought.
-- Ruhollah Khomeini -
Yes, I do feel the world revolves around me. After all, I am the main character of my own life.
-- Stefanie Schneider -
What is truth? Truth is what causes you to breathe again when lies have told you, you are already dead.
-- Stefanie Schneider -
The devil told my mind that my thoughts held no power; and this seemed true until my thoughts I began to speak.
-- Stefanie Schneider -
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 -
I dropped my juggling balls and my face grew embarrassed. It wasn't until then that I looked around the circus of life and noted all were too consumed on their own juggling act to see. This is when I learned to have fun, and kick the balls instead.
-- Stefanie Schneider -
It is most often not our strengths, our courage or our successes that bring two human hearts together, but it is often our shared vulnerability, our fears and our common failures that make us one.
-- Stefanie Schneider -
I always thought death was cruel, a silent destroyer of breath, of hope, of life. Now I understand it is physical death, the perception of it, the fear of it, which often saves us; for death marks the end of our flesh causing us to question the future of what we are.
-- Stefanie Schneider -
When I was young I would ask everybody what life was about. Now it's clear to me that the image of each existence shows its own answer to that question.
-- Stefanie Schneider -
People don't want quarter-inch drills. They want quarter-inch holes.
-- Theodore Levitt -
All these stuff she's done before - the rosary, the deep thoughts, the faux British accent. It's the same thing over and over. She's be so much better if she just retired, and I like Madonna.
-- Andrea Tantaros -
I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world because they'd never expect it.
-- Jack Handey -
On the other side of pain, there is still love.
-- Madeleine L'Engle -
The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.
-- Madeleine L'Engle -
Politics is the art of achieving prestige and power without merit.
-- P. J. O'Rourke -
I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.
-- Michelle Williams -
Deep thoughts (come) from a deep well. Society is useful because when we see ourselves reflected through others we can gain a deeper understanding of ourselves.
-- David Jenkins -
Paul Beatty for "The Sellout" sounds like a relevant story for our times. It's playful, uses deep thought and seems to be taking advantage of everything literature can do when tackling difficult issues.
-- Sjon
