Thoughtful Quotes - Page 17

• We must continually remind students in the classroom that expression of different opinions and dissenting ideas affirms the intellectual process. We should forcefully explain that our role is not to teach them to think as we do but rather to teach them, by example, the importance of taking a stance that is rooted in rigorous engagement with the full range of ideas about a topic.

  Bell Hooks

  Education, Thinking, Expression

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• The virtue of art lies in detachment, in sequestering one object from the embarrassing variety. Until one thing comes out from theconnection of things, there can be enjoyment, contemplation, but no thought.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Lying, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.276, Modern Library

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• By going one step further back in thought, discordant opinions are reconciled by being seen to be two extremes of one principle, and we can never go so far back as to preclude a still higher vision.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Agreement, Two

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (189?). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”

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• Generalization is always a new influx of divinity into the mind. Hence the thrill that attends it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Mind, Thrill

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.179, Penguin

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• Do not craze yourself with thinking, but go about your business anywhere.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Craze

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.207, Penguin

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• Thought dissolves the material universe by carrying the mind up into a sphere where all is plastic.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Mind, Spheres

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1982). “Emerson: Selected Essays”, p.311, Penguin

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• And what avails it that science has come to treat space and time as simply forms of thought, and the material world as hypothetical, and withal our pretension of property and even of self-hood are fading with the rest, if, at last, even our thoughts are not finalities, but the incessant flowing and ascension reach these also, and each thought which yesterday was a finality, to-day is yielding to a larger generalization?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Thinking, Yesterday

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.481, Penguin

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• What is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us, but makes us intellectual beings.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Intellectual, Doe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.58, Harvard University Press

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• Our thinking is a pious reception.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Reception, Pious

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• Why needs a man be rich? Why must he have horses, fine garments, handsome apartments, access to public houses, and places of amusement? Only for want of thought.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Men, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1169, Delphi Classics

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• To the young mind every thing is individual, stands by itself. By and by, it finds how to join two things and see in them one nature; then three, then three thousand; and so, tyrannized over by its own unifying instinct, it goes on tying things together, diminishing anomalies, discovering roots running under ground whereby contrary and remote things cohere and flower out from one stem.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Flower, Thinking

  "The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature addresses and lectures", Vol. 1, by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Library, 2006.

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• The crystal sphere of thought is as concentrical as the geological structure of the globe. As our soils and rocks lie in strata, concentric strata, so do all men's thinkings run laterally, never vertically.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Lying, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841). “The method of nature: An oration, delivered before the Society of the Adelphi, in Waterville College, in Maine, August 11, 1841”, p.7

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• How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation, and rapt concentration, and almost a going out of thebody to think!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Thinking, Going Out

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.637, Modern Library

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• That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone.

  William Shakespeare

  Talking, Going Away, Serious

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• There was a thoughtful frown on the face of the man who was the possessor of twenty million dollars.

  Eleanor Porter

  Book, Men, Twenties

  Eleanor H. Porter (2006). “Oh, Money! Money!”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The confirmed prejudices of a thoughtful life are as hard to change as the confirmed habits of an indolent life; and as some must trifle away age because they trifled away youth, others must labor on in a maze of error because they have wandered there too long to find their way out.

  Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

  Errors, Long, Age

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• Though we cannot totally change our nature, we may in great measure correct it by reflection and philosophy; and some philosophy is a very necessary companion in this world, where, even to the most fortunate, the chances are greatly against happiness.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Philosophy, Reflection, Thinking

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.333, Oxford University Press

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• If you didn't have anxiety, then you wouldn't have passion for anything. The reason we have anxiety is because you care and you're thoughtful.

  Kristen Stewart

  Passion, Anxiety, Care

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I am thoughtful about introducing terms that tend to be in circulation primarily in academic circles. "Homonormativity" and "homonationalism" are by no means solely academic terms, and in fact circulate in important ways in many activist circles, but in general I find them to be terms that most people I meet are not familiar with.

  Dean Spade

  Mean, Circles, People

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• The best opportunities are often ones where you're being contrarian. That doesn't mean being contrarian for contrarian's sake, but it means you're thoughtful about the risks of following the crowd.

  David Sze

  Mean, Opportunity, Risk

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• Gary Greenberg is a thoughtful comedian and a cranky philosopher and a humble pest of a reporter, equal parts Woody Allen, Kierkegaard, and Columbo. The Book of Woe is a profound, and profoundly entertaining, riff on malady, power, and truth. This book is for those of us (i.e. all of us) who've ever wondered what it means, and what's at stake, when we try to distinguish the suffering of the ill from the suffering of the human.

  Gideon Lewis-Kraus

  Book, Mean, Humble

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• Research shows that the deciscions of a group as a whole are more thoughtful and creative when there is minority dissent than when it is absent.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Creative, Groups, Minorities

  Philip Zimbardo (2011). “The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil”, p.266, Random House

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• I imagine you will always be pinched for money, for time, for a place to work. But I think you will do it. And believe me, it is not a new problem. You are in good company...Your touch is the uncommon touch; you will speak only to the thoughtful reader. And more times than once you will ask yourself whether such readers really exist at all and why you should go on projecting your words into silence like an old crazy actor playing the part of himself to an empty theater.

  Wallace Stegner

  Crazy, Believe, Thinking

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• Female animals defending their young are notoriously ferocious and lack the playful delight in combat which characterizes the mock combats of males of the same species. There seems very little ground for claiming that the mother of young children is more peaceful, more responsible, and more thoughtful for the welfare of the human race than is her husband or brother.

  Margaret Mead

  Mother, Brother, Husband

  Male and Female introduction (1955 edition)

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• In order to deal with the issues we're going to take a thoughtful, considered, intelligent approach to moving forward, we're going to do it with a great deal of consultation ... but to suggest you never change anything ever, ever, ever going forward I don't think is particularly responsible.

  Rachel Notley

  Change, Moving, Intelligent

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