Deep Thought Quotes

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.

Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world

The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you.

The moment anyone tries to demean or degrade you in any way, you have to know how great you are. Nobody would bother to beat you down if you were not a threat.

The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods outside their control; but the happiness of the wise grows out of their own free acts.

Nothing worthwhile is ever achieved without deep thought and hard work.

The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

All kids are born geniuses, but are crushed by society.

We are the gods of the atoms that make up ourselves but we are also the atoms of the gods that make up the universe.

People don't want quarter-inch drills. They want quarter-inch holes.

Thought is not reality; yet it is through Thought that our realities are created.

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.

Be proud of your scars. They remind you that you have the will to live.

However good or bad you feel about your relationship, the person you are with at this moment is the "right" person, because he or she is the mirror of who you are inside.

Time itself is the solution to all problems.

The only cats worth anything are the cats that take chances.

Don't allow any set back to become bigger than your come back

The less you try to impress, the more impressive you are.

You cannot transcend what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself.

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

Success is nothing without someone you love to share it with.

I have found truly jubilant Christians only in the Bible, in the Underground Church and in prison.

Sometimes it's the words we choose not to say that speak most loudly about our character.

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.

The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body.

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.

A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.

It is not defeat that destroys you,it is being demoralized by defeat that destroy you.

When we destroy something crated by man we call it vandalism but when we destroy something by nature we call it progress.

I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world because they'd never expect it.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

The devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for.

My brokenness is a better bridge for people than my pretend wholeness ever was.

Art is a line around your thoughts.

Why blame the dark for being dark? It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn’t as bright as it could be.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.

There aren't any hard women, only soft men.

There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.

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

Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to the situation that has value. All the meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.

There are many trails up the mountain, but in time they all reach the top.

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.

How strange now, looks the life he makes us lead; So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!

Sometimes when it looks like I'm deep in thought I'm just trying not to have a conversation with people.

To discover the thing you're brilliant at you first have to endure realizing all the things you're average at.

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.