Thoughtful Quotes

At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by "I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

The oldest, shortest words - 'yes' and 'no' - are those which require the most thought.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.

Architecture is the thoughtful making of space

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Remember, people will judge you by your actions not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so does a hard-boiled egg.

In this respect fundamentalism has demonic traits. It destroys the humble honesty of the search for truth, it splits the conscience of its thoughtful adherents, and it makes them fanatical because they are forced to suppress elements of truth of which they are dimly aware

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labor; and of looking at plants and animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single product system

The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful and being generous. Everything else is crap. I promise you. It's just crap that people try to sell to you to make you feel like less. So don't buy it. Be smart. Be thoughtful and be generous.

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

BE PURPOSEFUL AND THOUGHTFUL IN THE CHOICES YOU MAKE WHEN THE OPTIONS ARE NEARLY INFINITE.

Since we astronomers are priests of the highest God in regard to the book of nature, it befits us to be thoughtful, not of the glory of our minds, but rather, above all else, of the glory of God.

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

If history records good things about good people, the thoughtful hearer is encouraged to imitate what is good; or if it records the evil of wicked people, the godly listener or reader is encouraged to avoid all that is sinful and bad, and to do what he knows to be good and pleasing to God.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.