Deep Thought Quotes - Page 18

• To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Art, Food, Men

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “What is Art?”, p.156, Leo Tolstoy

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• And ah for a man to arise in me, That the man I am may cease to be!

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Humor, Men, May

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.876, Delphi Classics

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• Did I ever tell you,’ said Lymond pausing on the afterthought, on his way to the flap, ‘that that aunt of mine once hatched an egg?’ He paused, deep in thought, and walked slowly to the door before turning again. His lordship of Aubigny, staring after the vanishing form of his brother, received the full splendour of Lymond’s smile. ‘It was a cuckoo,’ said Francis Crawford prosaically, and followed Lennox out.

  Dorothy Dunnett

  Brother, Aunt, Doors

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• It wasn't even 8:00 yet. Pretty early for such deep thoughts.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Gabrielle Zevin (2011). “All These Things I've Done”, p.56, Macmillan

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

  Douglas Adams

  Thinking, Lunch, People

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• So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Long, Worship

  1879-80 The Brothers Karamazov, bk.5, ch.5.

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• Very deep. You should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you.

  Douglas Adams

  People, Pages, Like You

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts”, p.27, Pan Macmillan

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• Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Inspirational, Faith, Humor

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

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• There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Two, People, Luck

  "The Devil and the Good Lord". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, act 4, sc. 5, 1951.

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• Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Victory, Details, Defeat

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.11, Open Road Media

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• I didn't have all the expectations and the publicity. It probably made me work harder and learn more. It was a blessing in disguise.

  Dustin Penner

  Fun, Hard Work, Humor

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• I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Sorry, Mean

  What Then Must We Do? ch. 16 (1886) (translation by Aylmer Maude)

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• 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

  Life, Change, Trying

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1978). “Tolstoy's Letters: 1880-1910”

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

  Robert Breault

  Important, Life Is, Lifetime

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• The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

  Herbert Spencer

  Silly, Humor, Men

  'Essays' (1891) vol. 3 'State Tamperings with Money and Banks'

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

  Douglas Adams

  Years, Two, Answers

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.8, Pan Macmillan

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• 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

  Art, Book, Past

  "My Beloved Grandfather: A few words by Mowlana Hazar Imam, His Highness the Aga Khan IV". www.amaana.org. November 1977.

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• She avoids deep thought like an empty restaurant, not out of stupidity, but a canny resolve to be happy.

  Alex Shakar

  Stupidity, Empty, Restaurants

  Alex Shakar (2011). “Luminarium”, p.165, Soho Press

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

  Christopher Langan

  Thinking, Trivia

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• When Coleridge tried to define beauty, he returned always to one deep thought; beauty, he said, is unity in variety! Science is nothing else than the search to discover unity in the wild variety of nature,-or, more exactly, in the variety of our experience. Poetry, painting, the arts are the same search, in Coleridge's phrase, for unity in variety.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Art, Unity, Balance

  Jacob Bronowski (1965). “Science and Human Values”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.

  Bennett Cerf

  Art, Teaching, Sound

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• 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

  Science, Discovery, Substance

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• Mysterious power, whence hope ethereal springs!
  Sweet heavenly relic of eternal things!
  Inspiring oft deep thoughts of things divine:
  The past, the present, and the future time.
  Thy reminiscences transport the soul
  To memory?s Paradise?its future goal.

  Parley P. Pratt

  Dream, Sweet, Memories

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• The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of the two sexes is shown by mans attaining to a higher eminence, in whatever he takes up, than the woman. Whether deep thought, reason, or imagination or merely the use of the senses and hands.....We may also infer.....The average mental power in man must be above that of woman.

  Charles Darwin

  Sex, Men, Average

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• Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Civilization, Made

  "Notes from Underground". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Part 1, Chapter 7 (page 23), 1864.

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