Ought Quotes - Page 9

Theology is a part of our lives. It's unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a thoughtful and informed one.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

Quite generally, the familiar, just because it is familiar, is not cognitively understood. The commonest way in which we deceive either ourselves or others about understanding is by assuming something as familiar, and accepting it on that account; with all its pros and cons, such knowing never gets anywhere, and it knows not why.... The analysis of an idea, as it used to be carried out, was, in fact, nothing else than ridding it of the form in which it had become familiar.

Older, younger, anyone can help. We've learned that our legislators listen, and people with passionate and thoughtful concerns make a difference every day. We've had constituents initiate legislation, lobby for it, organize meetings and events, and, of course, call, mail, e-mail and visit legislators to express their views. It's really great to see how much difference that individuals can make.

Lord, please give me big ears and a thoughtful mind. Teach me to ask well and see it through other’s eyes.

Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

Researching 'Lone Wolf,' I was amazed at how thoughtful and intelligent these animals are. There has never been a documented attack against a human by a wolf that wasn't provoked by the human.

Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the Web like deer on a freeway.

We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing, or dancing on lonesome mountains by preference, or close to the sea, where even the paths become thoughtful.

Lukewarm people don't really want to be saved from their sin; they want only to be saved from the penalty of their sin.

You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.

In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.

Patriotism threatens free speech with death. It is infuriated by thoughtful hesitation, constructive criticism of our leaders and pleas for peace. It despises people of foreign birth. It has specifically blamed homosexuals, feminists and the American Civil Liberties Union. In other words, the American flag stands for intimidation, censorship, violence, bigotry, sexism, homophobia and shoving the Constitution through a paper shredder. Whom are we calling terrorists here?

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

Positive thoughts lead to positive results.

Life externalizes at the level of our thought.

Thought is the fountain of speech.

Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and the most remarkable race which has appeared in the world.

The police are the public and the public are the police.

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

The world is a drought when out of love.

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.