Think - Quotes
You don`t have any more reason to think you have the true faith than any other believer does. Sure, you can quote chapter and verse - and so can people with a different interpretation of the faith. That`s the nature of chapter and verse; it can be used to support just about any interpretation you can come up with.
In order to succeed in your failure, you have to think of your failed situation as a good place to start from.
If I`d had some set idea of a finish line, don`t you think I would have crossed it years ago?
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
Maybe love is all chemical, maybe it`s also "We`ll keep the species going." But I think whoever or whatever planned it that way, must have known what love felt like.
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
I think, at a child`s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.
Religion has never once in all of human history turned out to be the right answer to any question - why would you think it`s the right answer to anything we don`t currently understand?
If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power. But if the citizens are educated and form their own opinions, then those in power work for us.
What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school - and you think I'm going to explain it to you so you can understand it? No, you are not going to be able understand it. [...] You see my physics students don't understand it either. That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does.
One thing that I think never goes out of style is just purity. Niceness and purity.
If you show somebody a piece of your work and you ask them ‘What do you think? ’, they will probably say it’s okay because they don’t want to offend you. Next time, instead of asking if it’s right, ask them what’s wrong. They may not say what you want to hear, but the chances are they will give you a truthful criticism. Truth hurts, but in the long run it’s better than a pat on the back.
I don`t think I`ve mastered anything. I`m still wrestling with the same frustrations, the same issues, the same problems as I always did. That`s what life is like.
You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It`s their mistake, not my failing.