Top 1200 Useful Thoughts Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.

I am responsible for what I see. I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt. I could see peace instead of THIS. The past is over it can touch me not. This instant is the only time there is. Today I will judge nothing that occurs. I am not the victim of the world I see. I can escape from the world I see by giving up attack thoughts. I am determined to see things differently. I am never upset for the reason I think. Forgiveness is the key to happiness. All that I give I give to myself.

Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.

My puppets are far more liberated than I am. Ventriloquism is a useful way of expressing myself.

Man must be able to think freely and he must be able to express his thoughts freely! He who is against this is not only fascist and primitive but at the same time is a very great coward also! Only the brave and the honourable men are never afraid of freedom of thought and freedom of expression of ideas! Just like the cockroaches do not like the light, evil minds also do not like the freedom of thoughts!

When someone has the wit to coin a useful phrase, it ought to be acclaimed and broadcast or it will perish.

A few hints as to the craft may be useful to budding historians. First and foremost, get writing!

Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror.

The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.

Homophobia is manufactured in high schools, so it's probably useful to keep in mind that it really does bother people.

Rage was sometimes a useful ally in the heat of a fight, but it was a trickster. It made everything seem possible.

Labour is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men.

If you take your fear and mash it into something that's actually useful, then it doesn't feel like it wins.

Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.

The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted.

If a player is 20 or 21 and sits on the bench for two or three years, I don't know if that's useful.

When we find ourselves wondering about the meaning of conditions and events, its always useful to ask, who profits?

I think that 'minimalist' is a useful label for other people to identify me, but from my standpoint, I doesn't necessarily have an identity as that.

The idea of thinking of our relationships with people as also being structured by limitations and constraints can be useful.

In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.

I think we have to do everything that's useful. We're doctors. Our job is to tell the truth. And it doesn't have to be embellished in any way.

Let's be wise as the silence, strong as the wind, useful as the light; let's make of our lips a censer of the virtues.

Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.

The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.

Whatever you've learned becomes truly useful to you only once it has become second nature.

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.

The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful.

The clumsiest literal translation is a thousand times more useful than the prettiest paraphrase.

Conscious breath control is a useful tool for achieving a relaxed, clear state of mind.

I stress the relevance of my work for cancer research because I believe that science must be useful to man.

I play midfielder, playmaker, even second striker: where I am needed and where I can be most useful.

I don't dare start thinking in the morning. I don't dare start thinking in the morning. If I thought thoughts in bed, Them thoughts would bust my head-- So I don't dare start thinking in the morning.

The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.

Over the next four days, I want you to write about your deepest emotions and thoughts about the most upsetting experience in your life. Really let go and explore your feelings and thoughts about it. In your writing, you might tie this experience to your childhood, your relationship with your parents, people you have loved or love now or even your career. How is this experience related to who you would like to become, who you have been in the past, or who you are now?.

The reaction against your own thought in itself lends life to thought. How this reaction is born is hard to describe, because it identifies with the very rare intellectual tragedies. The tension, the degree and level of intensity of a thought proceeds from its internal antinomies, which in turn are derived from the unsolvable contradictions of a soul. Thought cannot solve the contradictions of the soul. As far as linear thinking is concerned, thoughts mirror themselves in other thoughts, instead of mirroring a destiny.

You'd better make it your business to understand the market. The ability to charm or play the game is useful.

In a strange way the spiritual life isn't "useful" or "successful." But it is meant to be fruitful. And fruitfulness comes out of brokenness.

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

Anytime you learn something new, you're just trying to file it away - might be useful one day.

Be praised, My Lord, through Sister Water; she is very useful, and humble, and precious, and pure.

Working in this industry, I do feel that science and creativity turned out to be a very useful combination for me.

Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.

It’s only useful to ask, what wisdom have you learned from your misjudgments that will help you going forward?

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

The Second Amendment was designed explicitly to protect weapons that would be useful in a military context.

I didn't know that once you've proven yourself useful to the wrong people, you'll never be free again.

When our thoughts revolve we are so often deceived into supposing that their violent movement is an indication of their vigorous originality, the upheaval of prejudice and fixed ideas, when all the time it is more likely that the machine which contains them is only an elaborate cement-mixer, and when the thinking is finished, those whirling thoughts are smoothed into the unchanged conventional mould and seeing them set solid enough to dance, to build, to travel upon, we would never dream of their first deceit, of the hope once roused by their apparently violent reorganisation.

The electron is a theory we use; it is so useful in understanding the way nature works that we can almost call it real.

What's so useful about the British culture of politeness is the level of passive aggression is really fun to write.

It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.

Putin is sometimes described as a revanchist, seeking to recreate the Soviet Union. That is a useful shorthand, but it is not really accurate.

It is always useful, you see, to subject the past life of reform politicians to rather inquisitive research.

I think walking is very useful, like sleeping and dreaming, as something that's important to my ability to write.

The conscious mind is a maelstrom of fleeting thoughts, images, sensations, feelings, conflicting desires, and doubts; barely able to confine its attention to a single clear objective for a microsecond before secondary thoughts begin to adulterate it and provoke yet further trains of mental discourse. If you do not believe this, then attempt to confine your conscious attention to the dot at the end of this sentence without involving yourself in any other form of thinking, including thinking about the dot.

We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them to be useful at all.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.

I learned how to fire a sniper rifle, which I'm sure will be useful at some point.

Jobs and money are never the primary cause of stress. Thinking, negative thinking causes stress. The real cause of all problems lie in our thoughts, not in things or circumstances. You and I possess the power to change our thoughts. It is our greatest power - the power to choose. If you are feeling stressful, choose to relax. Look at your problems as a stranger might then do something about them - NOW!

Accessing a "professional listener" such as a psychologist or counselor can be useful if the loved one wants to use this form of support.