Thoughts That Make You Think

I always enjoy reading anything that makes me ponder. Granted, nearly everything has that effect on me. These quotes, however, may also have that effect on you. Please feel free to comment with any quotations that you feel might add to this blog. If I agree, I might just make an edit! 

Ink smears, as thoughts sometimes do. -Terri Guillemets

And upside down in the earth a dead man walks upon my soles when I walk. -Bill Knott

We are asleep with compasses in our hands. -W.S. Merwin

We are never prepared for what we expect. -James A. Michener

You can owe nothing, if you give back its light to the sun. -Antonio Porchia

Take the so-called standard of living.  What do most people mean by "living"?  They don't mean living.  They mean the latest and closest plural approximation to singular prenatal passivity which science, in its finite but unbounded wisdom, has succeeded in selling their wives. -E.E. Cummings

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
-T.S. Eliot

A hunter of shadows, himself a shade. -Homer

He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone. -Antonio Porchia

"For there is nothing either good or bad, thinking makes it so." -William Shakespeare

"The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them." -Albert Einstein

"A great many people think they are thinking when they are actually rearranging their prejudices." -William James

"Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig." -Proverb

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop. -Lewis Carrol, Alice in Wonderland

The obscure we see eventually.  The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer. -Edward R. Murrow

You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. -Navajo Proverb

No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head. -Terry Josephson

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself. -Bertrand Russell

We become aware of the void as we fill it. -Antonio Porchia

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt. -Norman Cousins

I've observed that there are more lines formed than things worth waiting for.  -Robert Brault

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows. -Epictetus

I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. -Kurt Vonnegut