Deep Thinking - Quotes Worth Pondering

What constitutes deep thinking? You'll find some thoughts on that below. Quotes can sometimes be insightful and even profound despite their brevity. Some of my favorites can be found here, followed by a few of my own. Some are about thinking itself, while others are on a variety of topics - but from a deeper perspective than the usual.

There are men who can think no deeper than a fact. - Voltaire

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. - Washington Irving

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why. - Bernard M. Baruch

In art, there are tears that do often lie too deep for thoughts. - Louis Kronenberger

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations. - Anais Nin

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. - Albert Einstein

Trying to change ourselves in order to please others - so that we can feel temporarily whole for having won their approval - is like cutting a flower into pieces so that it will fit into a vase. - Guy Finley

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. - Erich Fromm

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still. - Lao Tzu

Deep Thinking - Quotes from Steve Gillman

There is no such thing as a necessary evil. If it is truly evil it isn't necessary. If it is truly necessary it can't be evil. - Steve Gillman

Money is simultaneously more important and less valuable than people think. - Steve Gillman

Most people's relationship with their god is a kind co-dependency. They become enablers - they protect, defend and enable a god of hatred. - Steve Gillman

Guilt is the payment made by a shallow self to avoid real change. - Steve Gillman

There are few wild creatures left to defend ourselves against, thus fear has become rare in the present, but common in our mental replaying of the past, and ubiquitous in our imagined future. - Steve Gillman

The mind is the puppet master, but when we look more closely we discover that we are puppets only because we choose to hold onto the strings. - Steve Gillman

When you say "I am intelligent," it suggests that your mind is your self, when it is perhaps more accurate to say that the mind is a tool used by your self. - Steve Gillman

Since power can be used to help us or hurt us, and the true value of a technology is dependent on discovering and valuing what is truly important so that our devices and systems can help us attain those values , does this make the practice of spirituality the ultimate technology? - Steve Gillman