Deep Thought Quotes

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

When I was younger I feared the dark, wondering what evil was watching me. Now it's different, for now it's a game of sneaking the light back on and laughing at how quickly the evil fleas. ~ Stefanie Schneider

A five-week sand blizzard?" said Deep Thought haughtily. "You ask this of me who have contemplated the very vectors of the atoms in the Big Bang itself? Molest me not with this pocket calculator stuff. ~ Douglas Adams

Every time you quit, someone else gets your prize. Every time you make a mistake, you get closer to yours. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

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

The realms of the gods and demons - heaven, purgatory, hell - are of the substance of dreams. Myth, in this view, is the dream of the world. ~ Joseph Campbell

For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

All kids are born geniuses, but are crushed by society. ~ Michio Kaku

Action without thought is mindlessness, and thought without action is hypocritical. ~ Ayn Rand

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

How can I set free anyone who doesn't have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom? ~ Jim Morrison

I am a man raking through ashes, a man struggling to find the embers of life in the bottom of a fireplace. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on. ~ Elie Wiesel

Yes, I do feel the world revolves around me. After all, I am the main character of my own life. ~ Stefanie Schneider

If we are not full of Him we have nothing to offer to anyone else. ~ Heidi Baker

Needing nothing attracts everything. ~ Russell Simmons

I had learned to respect the intelligence, integrity, creativity and capacity for deep thought and hard work latent somewhere in every child. they had learned that I differed from them only in years and experience, and that as I, an ordinary human being, loved and respected them, I expected payment in kind. ~ Sybil Marshall

Call on God, but row away from the rocks. ~ Hunter S. Thompson

It was like trying to think about what he'd be thinking if he never existed. He wouldn't be thinking about what he was thinking. He just wouldn't exist. It wouldn't hurt. ~ Nicole Grotepas

The dream in your heart may be bigger than the environment in which you find yourself. Sometimes you have to get out of that environment to see that dream fulfilled. It's like planting an oak sapling in a pot. Once it becomes rootbound, its growth is limited. It needs a great space to become a mighty oak. So do you. ~ Darren Hardy

There are few sights sadder than a ruined book. ~ Lemony Snicket

When people you greatly admire appear to be thinking deep thoughts, they probably are thinking about lunch. ~ Douglas Adams

You are who you are by virtue of the company you keep. ~ T. B. Joshua

Don't buy luxuries until you've built the assets to afford them ~ Robert Kiyosaki

You need to have the courage to fail. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

The worst disease in the world is hate. And the cure for hate is love. ~ India.Arie

You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect. ~ John Green

The function of abundance is not to possess things but to use them and gather experiences. ~ Stuart Wilde

A man sat down by a tree every day for 2 weeks. It was a beautiful Wisteria tree with purple flowers. Every day, around the same time, he would come to the park and sit by this tree. On the fourteenth day, he came to the park and approached the tree and as he sat down, he closed his eyes as he always did. Only this time when he opened them, the tree withered and died before him. The man then looked around and before he knew it, he had found that he never came to the tree at all, but was in an asylum the whole time. ~ Justin Bienvenue

If you want this life to stop breaking your heart, stop giving your heart to this life. ~ Yasmin Mogahed

There may be deep thought, but deep people don't exist. Our bodies must float on the surface, otherwise we drown. ~ Anthony Marais

I am Nom-O-Tron,' said the machine, in a big, boomy voice, so loud that Astra was afraid her mum and dad or some other grown-ups would hear and come to see who was sneaking a bedtime snack. 'Shhh!' she said. 'Have you got any biscuits? ~ Philip Reeve

Being is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature. But don't seek to grasp it with your mind. Don't try to understand it. You can know it only when the mind is still. When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally. ~ Eckhart Tolle

Anyone ever lost in the wild knows that nature wants you dead. ~ David Mamet

Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you. ~ Horace

All that is required to realise the Self is to Be Still. ~ Ramana Maharshi

I did think, let's go about this slowly.
This is important. This should take some really deep thought. We should take small thoughtful steps.
But, bless us, we didn't. ~ Mary Oliver

After a lifetime of deep thought, I've decided that life is a distraction, but probably not from anything important. ~ Robert Breault

How is it that Asians and Westerners can look at the same classroom interactions and one group will label it class participation and the other talking nonsense? The Chinese emphasize deeper attributes focusing on moral virtues and achievement. Another study asked Asian-Americans and European-Americans to think out loud while solving reasoning problems, and found that the Asians did much better when they were allowed to be quiet, compared to the Caucasians, who performed well when vocalizing their problem solving. These results would not surprise anyone familiar with traditional Asian attitudes to the spoke word: Talk is for communicating need to know information; quiet and introspection are signs of deep thought and higher truth. ~ Susan Cain

The choices we make define the kind of people we then become. The main question here is: Do we like who we have become? ~ Raisha Lalwani

Whatever you resist you become. If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad. If you resist suffering, you are always suffering. If you resist confusion,you are always confused. We think that we resist certain states because they are there, but actually they are there because we resist them. ~ Adyashanti

Beauty would save the world. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

In brief, sir, study what you most affect. ~ William Shakespeare

To have a high IQ, you tend to specialize, think deep thoughts. You avoid trivia. ~ Christopher Langan

Prizing elegance, sweet emotions, and fantasy more than morals and truth; wallowing in fleeting romance rather than trying to give meaning to life, when who knows what's going to happen to you anyway; ignoring virtue and conventions to cherish only the pleasures you are definitely experiencing now: this is the Cocoro of Rococo. No matter how much deep thought, hard work, and agonizing effort went into coaxing out some insight, if that insight is boring, or not beautiful, it doesn't matter. And even if something is made just for laughs, if you find it pleasing, it has value. Other people's opinions and labor do not figure into your assessment; choosing things with your own personal sense of "I like this, I don't like that" is the ultimate individualism that sustains the very foundation of Rococo. Rococo, therefore, embodies the spirit of punk rock and anarchism more than any philosophy. Only in Rococo - elegant yet in bad taste, extravagant yet defiant and lawless - can I discover the meaning of life. ~ Novala Takemoto

It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them - the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

And she realized, standing there, that in all her practical plans for marriage, she'd never thought about the simple pleasure of being loved. ~ Jude Watson

We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without. ~ Kahlil Gibran

You can be sincere and still be stupid. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown. ~ J.C. Ryle

I do not think that I will ever reach a stage when I will say, "This is what I believe. Finished." What I believe is alive ... and open to growth ~ Madeleine L'Engle

We need to practice acting in spite of fear, in spite of doubt, in spite of worry, in spite of uncertainty, in spite of inconvenience, in spite of discomfort, and even to practice acting when we're not in the mood to act. ~ T. Harv Eker

In the hectic pace of the world today, there is no time for meditation, or for deep thought. A prisoner has time that he can put to good use. I'd put prison second to college as the best place for a man to go if he needs to do some thinking. If he's motivated, in prison he can change his life. ~ Malcolm X

For seven and a half million years, Deep Thought computed and calculated, and in the end announced that the answer was in fact 42- and so another, even bigger, computer had to be built to find out what the actual question was. ~ Douglas Adams

People don't know about the human part of me that really cares about the world. For instance, 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

We laugh at sheep because sheep just follow the one in front. We humans have out-sheeped the sheep, because at least the sheep need a sheep dog to keep them in line. Humans keep each other in line. And they do it by ridiculing or condemning anyone who commits the crime, and that's what it's become, of being different. ~ David Icke

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not let the truth get in the way of a good story. ~ Dan Rather

Pour some water into a tub and stir it up. Now try as hard as you can to calm the water with your hands; you will succeed in agitating it further. Let it stand undisturbed a while, and it will calm down by itself. The human brain works much the same way. ~ Koichi Tohei

To live, fiction must be read, and to be read it must be enjoyed. Why do so many people talk about the number of times they've lost interest in a book after a couple of chapters, or only "toughed it out" to the end out of a sense of obligation? I'd say it's because too many writers have forgotten that the writer's job isn't merely to express himself, it's to reach a reader. That doesn't mean pandering to the lowest common denominator. But it does mean that even a work of smart, thoughtful fiction should strive to engage and entertain. If you're a writer of literary fiction and all you're bringing to the party is a poetic turn of phrase or a deep thought, that's not enough. What about pace? Humour? Characters you care about and a smattering of suspense that makes you want to "find out what happens next?" All of these, plus rich language, bracing honesty and emotional resonance, should be components of the best, most thoughtful fiction. Because that's the sort of reading experience that readers should be able to expect from a novel that demands hours of their time. ~ Trevor Cole

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do ~ Aristotle.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one. ~ Epicurus

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

Deep within my soul lies a great light. ~ Lailah GiftyAkita

A perfect morning; in perfect harmony with myself I'm walking briskly uphill ... For once I didn't notice that I was walking, all the way up to the mountaintop forest I was absorbed in deep thought. Perfect clarity and freshness in the air, up further there's some snow. The tangerines make me completely euphoric. ~ Werner Herzog

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

If you are influenced by the opinions of others, you will have no desire of your own. ~ Napoleon Hill

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love. ~ Miguel De Unamuno

I have a deep thought for you. Science fiction is just beginning to catch up with the Old Testament. See artificial nitrates run off into the rivers and oceans. See carbon dioxide melt the polar ice caps. See the world's mineral reserves dwindle. See war, famine and plague. See barbaric hordes defile the temple of virgins. See wild stallions mount the prairie dogs. I said science fiction but I guess I meant science. Anyway there's some kind of mythical and/or historic circle-thing being completed here. But I keep smiling. I keep telling myself there's nothing to worry about as long as the youth of America knows what's going on. Brains, brawn, good teeth. tallness. ~ Don DeLillo

Most men die at 25, we just don't bury them until they are 70. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people. ~ Mark Twain

Netflix did it right and focused on all the things that have replaced the dumb, raw numbers of the Nielsen world - they embraced targeted marketing and 'brand' as a virtue higher than ratings. ~ Kevin Spacey

My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me. While the past was a book he had read and re-read may times, the future was just one more literary work of art into which he used to pour himself with deep thought and concentration. Innumerable people since his death have told me how he used to read in the future, and this certainly was one of his very great strengths. ~ Aga Khan IV

One definition of maturity is learning to delay pleasure. ~ Dave Ramsey

There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both. ~ Emil Cioran

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it. ~ Henry Ford

And ah for a man to arise in me, That the man I am may cease to be! ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

Leaves doesn't wait for autumn to shed, they shed when they are ready, bad experiences doesn't wait, they leave when you are ready. ~ Pushpa Rana

We are not sinners because we sin. We sin because we are sinners. ~ R.C. Sproul

The two great words of antiquity are behold and beware. Behold the possibilities and beware the temptations. ~ Jim Rohn

To see a candle's light one must take it into a dark place. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin

What is truth? Truth is what causes you to breathe again when lies have told you, you are already dead. ~ Stefanie Schneider

Love is when you don't have to be with another person to touch their heart! ~ Torquato Tasso

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

When you have a problem, if you tell the truth, the problem becomes part of your past. If you lie, it becomes part of your future. ~ Rick Pitino

We think of photography as pictures. And it is. But I think of photography as ideas. And do the pictures sustain your ideas or are they just good pictures? I want to have an experience in the world that is a deepening experience, that makes me feel alive and awake and conscious. ~ Joel Meyerowitz

'Smart', in American usage, is slicker and sharper than 'intelligent'; faster off the mark and quicker on its feet than deep thought. ~ Mal Peet

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air. ~ Richard Whately

I'm not what anyone thinks I am. I never was. I didn't have the mouth to put it into words, to say what was wrong, to change the things I felt I needed to change. And every day it was difficult, walking around and knowing that people saw me one way, knowing that they were wrong, so completely wrong, that the real me was invisible to them. It didn't even exist to them. So: If nobody sees you, are you still there? ~ Akwaeke Emezi

The best things in life must come by effort from within, not by gifts from the outside. ~ Fred Pierce Corson

When the sun sets, candle starts seeing itself like the sun! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence. ~ Charles Bukowski

Nothing is stronger than habit. ~ Ovid

Do what you do best, and outsource the rest. ~ Peter Drucker

I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed. ~ Bruce Lee

The one who knows himself isn't deceived by either praise or criticism. ~ Yasmin Mogahed

Sell your presence and purchase bewilderment. ~ Rumi

The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others. ~ Joseph Campbell

What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most. ~ Andre Gide

Could I be your girl, too?" I asked quickly.
The large, broad-shouldered man looked away before he answered. "Well, now," he said, as though he had given it deep thought, "I sure do think I would like that."
"But," I said, concerned that he hadn't noticed, "I don't look like your other girls."
"You mean because you white?"
I nodded.
"Abinia," he said, pointing toward the chickens, "you look at those birds. Some of them be brown, some of them be white and black. Do you think when they little chicks, those mamas and papas care about that? ~ Kathleen Grissom