#thoughtful

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#difficult #discern #liberty #religious #religious liberty

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#actions #actions speak #mankind #mind #only

Gradually, everything that happens in the world is coming to be of interest everywhere in the world, and, gradually, thoughtful men and women everywhere are sitting in judgment upon the conduct of all nations. ↗

— Elihu Root

#coming #conduct #everything #everywhere #gradually

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most. ↗

— John Ruskin

#love #minds #most #purest #those

A brain is only capable of what it could conceive, andit couldnt concieve what it hasnt experienced ↗

— Graham Greene

#capable #concieve #experience #human #mind

But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs. ↗

— George Eliot

#life #thoughtful #faith

Tugs was surprised to find that the cake was actually pretty dry and not as good as the cakes her own mother made. It was a revelation. Tugs had assumed that tastier food came out of fancier houses. ↗

— Anne Ylvisaker

#middle-grade #thoughtful #food

If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long term. ↗

— David Mitchell

#interesting #losing #perspectives #thoughtful #winning

Why is being a nerd bad? Saying I notice you’re a nerd is like saying, ‘Hey, I notice that you’d rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you’d rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Linsey Lohan. Why is that? ↗

— John Green

#nerd #nerds #nerdy #thoughtful #intelligence

A life lived in love will never be dull. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

#life