Thoughtful Quotes - Page 16

• I had a deep prejudice against the South. It's taken me many years to get over that, be more open and thoughtful.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Taken, Years, Prejudice

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I'm pretty careful about the things I say ahead of time. I'm thoughtful about not going too far. The only thing you can do occasionally is be too much.

  Jeff Ross

  Too Much, Careful, Can Do

  "Having Thick Skin Is A 'Survival Technique,' Says Comic Jeff Ross". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, wutc.org. September 13, 2016.

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• Once we affirm the goal of trying to make sure that you don't have jihadis infiltrating terrorist flows, we need to make sure we're doing it in a thoughtful way that's thinking about the 10 and 15 and 20 years long battle we're going to have against jihadists.

  Benjamin E. Sasse

  Thinking, Years, Long

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• We can have reasonable, thoughtful gun control measure that I think respect the Second Amendment and people's traditions.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Gun, People

  Source: www.politico.com

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• My observation is that my dealings with the president on some of the most important issues that the president Donald Trump has to face are as professional and as thoughtful as the American people deserve. The president's handling these duties in a way that I'm incredibly proud of to be part of his team.

  Mike Pompeo

  Team, People, Important

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• A rocket is an experiment; a star is an observation.

  Jose Bergamin

  Stars, Thinking, Rockets

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• Man is a thought-adventurer.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Thinking, Mankind

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Kangaroo”, p.281, Jester House Publishing

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• Time and fevers burn away
  Individual beauty from
  Thoughtful children, and the grave
  Proves the child ephemeral

  W. H. Auden

  Death, Children, Fever

  'Another Time' (1940) no. 18, p. 43

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• Most thoughts are only profiles of thoughts. They must be inverted and synthesized with their antipodes. Thus many philosophical writings become very interesting which would not have been so otherwise.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Philosophical, Writing, Thinking

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• Once the pursuit of truth begins to haunt the mind, it becomes an ideal never wholly attained.

  Agnes Meyer Driscoll

  Truth, Thinking, Mind

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• In opening your doors to woman, it is mind that will enter the lecture room, it is intelligence that will ask for food; sex will never be felt where science leads for the atmosphere of thought will be around every lecture.

  Harriot Kezia Hunt

  Sex, Food, Science

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• Experience and imagination must enter into the very constitution of our thoughts involving concrete individuals.

  Zeno Vendler

  Thinking, Imagination, Experience

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• the full analysis of the notions of saying something and understanding what one said inevitably involves a concept which, as I will show in detail, essentially corresponds to the Cartesian idea of thought.

  Zeno Vendler

  Thinking, Ideas, Understanding

  Zeno Vendler (1972). “Res Cogitans: An Essay in Rational Psychology”, Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press

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• During the ten years I lived in the U.K., I frequently attended an Anglican church just outside of London. I enjoyed the energetic singing and the thoughtful homilies. And yet, I found it easy to be a pew warmer, a consumer, a back row critic.

  Gary Hamel

  Years, Singing, Church

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• The thoughtful man becomes a hermit in the thoroughfares of the marketplace.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Independence, Hermits

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Miscellanies (Annotated Edition)”, p.124, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I've always believed that thoughtful people don't really take the tabloids seriously. They're basically a form of entertainment. I enjoy them as much as the next New Yorker.

  Woody Allen

  People, Tabloids, Next

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• Americans don't speak foreign languages, by and large. Their interest in anything beyond the borders of the country is limited. A European of any cultivation has to speak a couple of languages; he inevitably without being very thoughtful about it gets to understand what other people think about him.

  Arthur Miller

  Country, Couple, Thinking

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• There's no idea that can't be explained to a thoughtful 14-year-old. If the thoughtful 14-year-old doesn't get it, it is your fault, not the 14-year-old's.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Years, Ideas, Faults

  Goodreads Interview, www.goodreads.com. December, 2008.

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• Obama's the most thoughtful-sounding president I can remember. He seems to be saying what he wants to say, and that is a great relief. He always sounds like he's thinking about what he's saying while he's saying it, and that's a rare thing in politicians.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Thinking, President, Sound

  "MoJo Podcast: Roy Blount Jr.’s Southern Fried Language". Interview with Laura Mcclure, www.motherjones.com. April 30, 2009.

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• It was easy to make fun of Bush, but it was sort of like shooting fish in a barrel and it didn't really feel all that good because it was so easy to do. I would much rather live under a thoughtful president. Even if it makes it harder to be funny about politics, it makes it more interesting to be funny about politics.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Fun, Interesting, President

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• I was kind of sweet kid, according my mother, and my recollections. Thoughtful and good, but kind of alone - although I didn't interpret it that way, as such. Children never interpret these things. They think they understand logically.

  George Carlin

  Mother, Sweet, Children

  Source: mavericksofthemind.com

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• Comedy is grievances. It's a recitation of grievances - whether they're inconsequential, superficial - like "my wife shops too much", or "kids today", all those old-fashioned themes - or, if it's deeper, and somewhat more thoughtful, about social imbalance and inequities, and the folly of human behavior. It's usually a complaint.

  George Carlin

  Kids, Wife, Imbalance

  Source: mavericksofthemind.com

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• Luckily, eating healthy and exercise are activities I enjoy, but I still like to indulge every now and then. I don't deprive myself, but I'm thoughtful about my choices.

  Miranda Kerr

  Exercise, Choices, Healthy

  "Beauty Q&A: Miranda Kerr Spills the Details on Getting Smooth Legs, Keeping Her Hair Looking Full and Fabulous, and How to Look Sexy in Photographs". Interview with Beth Shapouri, www.glamour.com. June 7, 2013.

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• The aim of science is to apprehend this purely intelligible world as a thing in itself, an object which is what it is independently of all thinking, and thus antithetical to the sensible world.... The world of thought is the universal, the timeless and spaceless, the absolutely necessary, whereas the world of sense is the contingent, the changing and moving appearance which somehow indicates or symbolizes it.

  Robin G. Collingwood

  Moving, Thinking, World

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• There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts,--fine breeding.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Kindness, Manners, Breeding

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