deep thoughts Quotes

“He acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.”

“Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.”

“If man chooses to treat himself as raw material, raw material he will be.”

“Close your eyes and stare into the dark.”

“Know that in your deeper mind are infinite intelligence and infinite power.”

“My old thoughts about the silt of a billion years covering all this and all cities and generations eventually is just a dumb old thought, ‘Only a silly sober fool could think it, imagine gloating over such nonsense’ (because in one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it was “The pathway to wisdom lies through excess’) – But in this condition you can only say ‘Wisdom is just another way to make people sick.‘”

“Whatever,” he said and tipped his head back as he polished off the remnants of whatever it was he was drinking. “It’s not like she’s the only game in town.” He took a step towards me but I was too consumed with my own thoughts to pay it any attention.

“Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?—every, every minute?”

“Because of these strong feelings and deep thoughts, most high sensitive children are unusually empathic. So they suffer more when others suffer and become interested early in social justice.”

“It was a curious feeling, that something could be so close and so distant at the same time.”

″‘Does anyone truly get anyone, Jay?’ ‘Deep,’ I say sarcastically. ‘Nothing like wisdom from on high.‘”