Thoughtful Quotes - Page 23

• Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Stupid, Silly, Ignorance

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• Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Beauty, Poetry, Poetic

  "The Poetic Principle". Essay by Edgar Allan Poe, 1850.

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• My heart gives thanks for empty moments given to dreams, and for thoughtful people who help those dreams come true

  William Braithwaite

  Dream, Heart, People

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• Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Taught Us, Intelligence, Madness

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• The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  Edgar Allan Poe (2006). “The Best of Poe”, p.134, Prestwick House Inc

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• To quote a recent customer email, “I really appreciate your thoughtful and professional response. I don’t get that a lot from customer service. Usually, it’s scripted nonsense that makes it seem like I’ve done something wrong. You’ve single-handedly improved my perception tenfold. Someone there ought to give you a pay raise."

  Matt Mickiewicz

  Appreciate, Giving, Perception

  "12 Surefire Strategies to Increase Customer Loyalty". www.businessinsider.com. June 26, 2012.

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• As a divorced parent, working with Dr.Walfish has been a gift. Due to her thoughtful, sensitive and highly educated guidance, I have become a far more aware parent. For over five years, I have applied her practical and customized suggestions, and––wow––it has allowed my amazing daughter and me to grow together.

  Deborah Raffin

  Daughter, Years, Parent

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• Wine sets even a thoughtful man to singing, or sets him into softly laughing, sets him to dancing. Sometimes it tosses out a word that was better unspoken.

  Homer

  Wine, Men, Dancing

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• As factual and thoughtful literature began to seep in, against the Nazis' will, and replace the reams of Nazi propaganda, I began to see the German Jew in his historical role, in his good as well as his bad light.

  Martha Dodd

  Light, Historical, Roles

  Martha Dodd (1939). “Through embassy eyes”, New York

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• It is by thoughtful reflection that the elusive moments of the past draw near to us in present reality and gain a measure of permanence.

  Yi-Fu Tuan

  Reflection, Past, Reality

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• A thoughtful and well-informed consideration of US government in relation to American society.

  Ian Harris

  Government, Consideration, Relation

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• Being silly is still allowed, not excluded by adulthood. What's excluded by adulthood is thoughtlessness, so be thoughtful and silly

  Hank Green

  Silly, Stills, Excluded

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• There is giant untapped potential in disagreement, especially if the disagreement is between two or more thoughtful people

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Two, People

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• In an ideal world, social responsibility would be a prerequisite for design, and designers would vow to produce beautiful, useful, positive, responsible, functional, and economical things and concepts that are meaningful additions to—or sometimes subtractions from—the world we live in. Indeed, design deserves such thoughtful consideration.

  Paola Antonelli

  Beautiful, Meaningful, Responsibility

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• David Corbett has combined his unique talents as a gifted writer and an extraordinary teacher to create a superb resource on character development. Deftly crafted and impeccably researched, The Art of Character is a thoughtful and insightful book that is immensely readable and practical.

  Sheldon Siegel

  Teacher, Art, Book

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• Language pedants hew to an oral tradition of shibboleths that have no basis in logic or style, that have been defied by great writers for centuries, and that have been disavowed by every thoughtful usage manual.

  Steven Pinker

  Style, Oral Tradition, Pedants

  "Oaf of Office" by Steven Pinker, www.nytimes.com. January 21, 2009.

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• Become the world's most thoughtful friend.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Empathy, Understanding, Listening

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• All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Philosophical, Love Is, Essence

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• Obama entered the presidency trailing clouds of intellectual self-regard. His carefully cultivated persona was of a uniquely thoughtful, judicious, deliberative, evidence-driven man comfortable with complexity. The protracted consideration of Keystone supposedly displayed these virtues. Now, however, it is clear that his mind has always been as closed as an unshucked oyster.

  George Will

  Men, Clouds, Self

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• Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Love, Fear, Philosophy

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1971). “Saint Thomas Aquinas”

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• A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, Love Is, Men

  Saint Thomas Aquinas (1951). “Philosophical Texts”, London : Oxford University Press

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• The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Birthday, Educational, Positivity

  "The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony", Book by Ida Husted Harper, Volume 2, 1898.

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• For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Reading, Book

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Oct 30, 2010

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• Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Dream, Responsibility

  "Visions: Maya Angelou". Interview With Ken Kelley, www.motherjones.com. May/June 1995.

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• My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Believe, Love Life

  Maya Angelou (2008). “Letter to My Daughter”, p.5, Random House

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