Quotes – Page 2 – A Pondering Mind

“Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.” ~ George Carlin

“Some people have no idea what they’re doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.” ~ George Carlin

Governments don’t want a population of critical thinking ….

“Governments don’t want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They’ve […]

On Some Summer Days In New York City

On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam rising from vents underground makes you wonder if there isn’t one giant sweat gland lodged beneath the city. ~ Diane Ackerman

In summer, the song sings itself. ~ William Carlos Williams

“If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.” ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher – Born: June 21, 1905 – Died: April 15, 1980

My ideal summer day was reading on the porch. ~ Harold E. Varmus

Isabella Schomo Quote

Spring procreates, Summer develops, Autumn debilitates & Winter ceases to be. Meeting all forms of life. ~ Isabella Schomo

One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by. ~ Jeannette Walls

Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. ~ Sam Levenson

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs. ~ Susan Sontag

Writing Quote ~ Jose Saramago

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Journey Through Life ~ William Golding

“Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. Most important of all, we know that if at any point between the beginning and the […]

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed. ~ Henrik Ibsen

Cup of Coffee ~ Anthony Trollope

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Coffee And Conversation

Then you get these articles about how unhealthy life is in the city. You know, mobile phone tumours – far more likely in the city. Well you know what, so is everything else! Including sex, coffee and conversation. ~ Dylan Moran

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. ~ Steve Jobs

Creativity is intelligence having fun. ~ Albert Einstein

Don’t compare your life to others. You have no idea what they have been through. ~ Sam Cawthorn

Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time. ~ Robert McKee

Write in recollection and amazement for yourself. ~ Jack Kerouac

When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Emily Dickinson Quote

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven. ~ Emily Dickinson

Summer Quote

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You can never plan the future by the past. ~ Edmund Burke

Summer is my favorite time to read mysteries. ~ Meg Cabot

Writer’s block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol. ~ Steve Martin

We made too many wrong mistakes. ~ Yogi Berra

Greed ~ Erich Fromm

Psychologist, 1900 – 1980

Quiet People ~ Susan Gale

Sometimes quiet people really do have a lot to say. They’re just being careful about who they open up to. ~ Susan Gale

Destiny’s Champion, Fate’s Fool. Eternity’s Soldier, Time’s Tool. ~ Michael Moorcock

The Best Things In Life Are Free.

The best things in life are free. Sunsets and sunrises are free. Air is free. Love is free. Death is free. The best things in life are free. ~ Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

Well, there’s nothing better than putting your feet up on a Sunday afternoon and grabbing a good book. ~ Chris Klein

Street Art ~ Lies

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I’ll read my books ….

I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door. […]

Coffee Quote

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On a summer night ….

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance. ~ Bernard Williams

Coffee

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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Writer / 1749 – 1832

Virtual Reality

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Mind is consciousness

Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind. ~ Ramana Maharshi

Benign Indifference Of The Universe ~ Albert Camus

For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed so brotherly, made me realize that I’d been happy, and that I was happy still. ~ Albert Camus

What was once thought can never be unthought. ~ Friedrich Dilrrenmatt

Man does not simply exist, but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment. ~ Victor Frankl

Art

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A Precious Privilege

Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours in watching television. ~ David Letterman

“If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.” ~ Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka, Writer – Born: July 3, 1883 – Died: June 3, 1924

“I don’t think there is any truth. There are only points of view.” ~ Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg, Poet – Born: June 3, 1926 – Died: April 5, 1997

Look For Beauty ~ Richard Paul Evans

‘Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. ~ John Burroughs

“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” ~ Dr. Seuss

In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different. ~ John Steinbeck

June Cleaver didn’t keep her house in perfect order, the prop man did it. ~ Barbara Billingsley

Barbara Billingsley , played June Cleaver in “Leave it to Beaver”

To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Summer ~ Hal Borland Quote

Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January. ~ Hal Borland

A Single Conversation … ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. ~ Mark Twain

People living deeply have no fear of death. ~ Anais Nin

The weird and the stupid …

For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal. ~ Carl Bernstein

Ursula K. Le Guin Quote

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin, American author 1929-

“It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.” ~ Honore de Balzac

Honore de Balzac, Novelist ~ 1799 – 1850

Acceptance

To most of us the real life is the life we do not lead. ~ Oscar Wilde

Rachel Carson ~ Nature

“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.” ~ Abigail Adams

Abigail Adams, Former First Lady of the United States – 1744 – 1818

Alice Walker Quote

“A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.” ~ Miles Davis

Miles Davis, Musician – B: May 26, 1926 – D: September 28, 1991

Fantasy is the only truth. – Abbie Hoffman

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. – Iris Murdoch

Life is existence with meaning. – Bangambiki Habyarimana

Consciousness is nature’s nightmare. – Emile M. Cioran

Balance is balancing. – John Dewey

We dance for ….. – Albert Einstein

We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams. – Albert Einstein

There’s one advantage to being 102. There’s no peer pressure. ~ Dennis Wolfberg

Good Or Bad Fortune

“I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.” ~ Hermann Hesse

The early North American Indian made a great mistake by not having an immigration bureau. ~ Anonymous

People Like Us ~ Albert Einstein

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. ~ Albert Einstein

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. ~ Albert Einstein

“If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.” ~ Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan, B: May 24, 1941

The Great Unknown

You’ll never know the kind of person you could be until you take that first step, all alone, into the great unknown. Very few take the step. ~ Hannah Harding